Question

i’m having difficulty setting up phpmailer on my local web server and would appreciate any help

i am running xamppp 1.7.4 and php 5.3.5 – i keep receiving the following error message whenever trying to send mail

SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

here is the code i am using right now

require("resources/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
    //send the email with an email containing the activation link to the supplied email address

   $mailer = new PHPMailer();
   $mailer->IsSMTP();  // telling the class to use SMTP
   $mailer->Mailer = "smtp";
   $mailer->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
   $mailer->Port = 587;
   $mailer->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication
   $mailer->Username = $email_kite;
   $mailer->Password = $emailpass_kite;
   $mailer->From = $email_kite;
   $mailer->FromName = 'Kite';
   $mailer->Body = 'Testing';
   $mailer->Subject = 'Get started with Kite';
   $mailer->AddAddress($email);
   if(!$mailer->Send())
   {
       // message not sent
  echo '<p class="c7">Unfortunately the <b>activation</b> email could not be sent and user registration has failed. Please go <a href="register.php">back</a> and try again.</p>';
      echo '<br><img src="resources/img/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="10">';
  include_once ("resources/php/footer.php");
  exit;
   }
   else
   {
       // message sent
       "Email sent successfully!";
   }
    }

thanks!

Answer 1

Try using

$mailer->Port = 465;

Port 587 is for TLS, the SSL port is 465.