Sending emails through SMTP with PHPMailer

Question

I\'m trying to send SMTP e-mails using PHPMailer, but I keep getting this error message, any ideas how to get rid of it?
I\'m trying to connect via SSL on port 465.

Answer 1

Try to send an e-mail through that SMTP server manually/from an interactive mailer (e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird). From the errors, it seems the server won't accept your credentials. Is that SMTP running on the port, or is it SSL+SMTP? You don't seem to be using secure connection in the code you've posted, and I'm not sure if PHPMailer actually supports SSL+SMTP.

(First result of googling your SMTP server's hostname: http://podpora.ebola.cz/idx.php/0/006/article/Strucny-technicky-popis-nastaveni-sluzeb.html seems to say "SMTPs mail sending: secure SSL connection,port: 465" . )

It looks like PHPMailer does support SSL; at least from this. So, you'll need to change this:

define('SMTP_SERVER', 'smtp.ebola.cz');

into this:

define('SMTP_SERVER', 'ssl://smtp.ebola.cz');