Phpmailer using smtp with Gmail not working - connection timing out

Question

I\'ve looked into the following links:

phpmailer send gmail smtp timeout

send email using Gmail SMTP server through PHP Mailer

http://uly.me/phpmaile

Answer 1

Check to make sure you can reach gmail from your webhost. I'm assuming it's linux. SSH in and on the command line type

telnet smtp.gmail.com 587

You should get back

Connected to smtp.something 

It has to be a configuration difference between localhost and your provider