Question

i am using phpmailer and i am getting following error:

Message was not sent
Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

<?php
require("class.phpmailer.php");
$mailer = new PHPMailer();
$mailer->IsSMTP();
$mailer->Host = 'ssl://smtp.myhost.com:465';
$mailer->SMTPAuth = TRUE;
$mailer->Username = '[e-mail]';
$mailer->Password = 'mypass';
$mailer->From = '[e-mail]';
$mailer->FromName = 'myname';
$email1 = $_GET['email'];
$verification = rand();
$mailer->Body = 'Welcome to our site';
$mailer->Subject = 'verification';
$mailer->AddAddress($email1);
if(!$mailer->Send())
{
   echo "Message was not sent<br/ >";
   echo "Mailer Error: " . $mailer->ErrorInfo;
}
else
{
   echo "Message has been sent";
}
?> 

note: i use “myhost.com” but it’s not my real domain

Answer 1

I believe you are specifying your host incorrectly. Try this instead:

$mailer->Host="smtp.myhost.com";
$mailer->Port=465;
$mailer->SMTPSecure="ssl"; //If this doesn't work, try 'tls'

If it still doesn’t work, consider setting:

$mailer->SMTPDebug=1;

Also, make sure PHP’s OpenSSL extension is enabled.