phpmailer - The following SMTP Error: Data not accepted

Question

I\'m trying to figure out this issue for 6 hours. But there is nothing to make sense. Here is the scenario; There is a well formatted HTML template.

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Answer 1

I was hitting this error with phpMailer + Amazon SES. The phpMailer error is not very descriptive:

2: message: SERVER -> CLIENT: 554 Transaction failed: Expected ';', got "\"
1: message: 
2: message: SMTP Error: data not accepted.

For me the issue was simply that I had the following as content type:

$phpmailer->ContentType = 'text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n';

But that it shouldn't have the linebreak in it:

$phpmailer->ContentType = 'text/html; charset=utf-8';

... I suspect this was legacy code from our older version. So basically, triple check every $phpmailer setting you're adding - the smallest detail counts.