Getting error SMTP connect() failed phpmailer with localhost

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I'm getting error SMTP connect() failed phpmailer with localhost:

2015-09-10 09:34:48 Connection: opening to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:587, timeout=300, options=array ( ) 2015-09-10 09:34:48 SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: (0) 2015-09-10 09:34:48 SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting

Is it phpmailer cannot run at localhost?
If I want really run at localhost how can I change the code?
I tried using mailto function is work for me but I want change whole thing.

can give any suggestion. I really want to learn it.

This is the code from github: require 'PHPMailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';

   $mail = new PHPMailer;

   //$mail->SMTPDebug = 4;                               // Enable verbose debug output

   $mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
   $mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
   $mail->Username = '[email protected]';                 // SMTP username
   $mail->Password = 'mygmailpassword';                           // SMTP password
   $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';                            // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
   $mail->Port = 465;                                    // TCP port to connect to
   //$mail->Host = 'tls://smtp.gmail.com:587';

   $mail->From = '[email protected]';
   $mail->FromName = 'Mailer';
   $mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Joe User');     // Add a recipient

   $mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML

   $mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
   $mail->Body    = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
   $mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';

    if(!$mail->send()) {
       echo 'Message could not be sent.';
       echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
    } else {
      echo 'Message has been sent';
     }

Can you share the code that might have to be changed? So far, you only posted the error message, as far as I can see. — lenz
this is the code I copy from github. I did changed sendmail.ini and php.ini file but still not working. — ikramlim

René Höhle René Höhle · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-10T10:10:52

PHPMailer is normally working on all systems.

I think you have an old openssl extension or your extension is not enabled. Check that with a phpinfo() if there is openssl enabled.

If not then enable it in your php.ini.

And the other way is that it seems that Google has some problems. When i try to send an Email at the moment i have connection problems with Thunderbird, too. I have to try it some times to connect to gmail.

Getting error SMTP connect() failed phpmailer with localhost

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