I'm trying to use the phpmailer in my project, but the SMTP settings for gmail doesn't seem to be right. I referred a few questions asked here before, but none of the solutions seem to work for me.
<?php
require 'PHPMailer-master/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = ''; //gmail address
$mail->Password = ''; // gmail password
$mail->From = '[email protected]';
$mail->FromName = 'John Doe';
$mail->AddAddress('[email protected]', 'Nick'); // Add a recipient
$mail->IsHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'subject';
$mail->Body = 'message body';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is a plain-text message body';
$mail->addAttachment('images/apache_pb.png');
if (!$mail->send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}
?>
You must to have installed php_openssl.dll, if you use wampserver it's pretty easy, search and apply the extension for PHP.
In the example change this:
//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
//Set the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS, a.k.a. RFC4409 SMTP submission 465 ssl
$mail->Port = 465;
//Set the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
and then you recived an email from gmail talking about to enable the option to Less Safe Access Applications here https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps