phpMailer: Could not instantiate mail function

Question

I created a form that uses phpMailer to email the results to the website owner. Of course, before I add the owner\'s email address I use mine to test that the form works. When

Answer 1

Set $mail->SMTPDebug = 2; so you can see what the server has to say, and read the troubleshooting guide.

You're using authentication without encryption, which is not a good combination and many servers won't allow that. Add this:

$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;

You've based your code on an old example, so you're probably using an old version of PHPMailer too; get the latest from github.