PHP Mailer SMTP Connection Refused on GoDaddy Server

Question

I have using phpmailer(smtp) for sending email. My website is hosted on Godaddy. I have read that phpmailer is not working with Godaddy. So tried multiple solutions to send email. But nothing worked. Error message shows SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111)SMTP Connect() failed.

adding here code, help to resolve issue.

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';;
$body = 'Hi this is test message';
$mail             = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->Host       = "relay-hosting.secureserver.net"; // SMTP server            
$mail->SMTPDebug  = 2;  
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Port       = 25;                    // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username   = "[email protected]"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password   = "*****";

$mail->SetFrom('[email protected]', 'Web developer');

$mail->Subject    = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp, basic with authentication";
 $mail->MsgHTML($body);
$address = "[email protected]";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe");
    if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message sent!";
}

?>

Check if PEAR Mail is installed on the server, if it is you can use it as alternative to PHPMailer. pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.php — Auris
try sending it ur mail id like this and check if its wrking. if it is snot working then lets try something else $toMail = "[email protected]"; — rahul patel
@Mohammad error displays as SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111) SMTP connect() failed. — Chaitali Patil
@rahulpatel tried mail id as gmail id. But giving the same error — Chaitali Patil

Chaitali Patil Chaitali Patil · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-16T05:28:22

Setting the SMTPOptions solves my problem.

 <?php
 require 'vendor/autoload.php';;
 $body = 'Hi this is test message';
 $mail             = new PHPMailer();
 $mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
 $mail->SMTPOptions = [
        'ssl' => [
            'verify_peer' => false,
            'verify_peer_name' => false,
            'allow_self_signed' => true,
        ],
    ];
  $mail->Host       = "mail.domain.com"; // SMTP server            
  $mail->SMTPDebug  = 2;  
  $mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
  $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
  $mail->SMTPSecure = ''; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
  $mail->Port = 587;

  $mail->Username   = "[email protected]"; // SMTP account username
  $mail->Password   = "*****";

  $mail->SetFrom('[email protected]', 'Web developer');

  $mail->Subject    = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp, basic with authentication";
  $mail->MsgHTML($body);
  $address = "[email protected]";
  $mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe");
  if(!$mail->Send()) {
     echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
   } else {
     echo "Message sent!";
   }
 ?>

PHP Mailer SMTP Connection Refused on GoDaddy Server

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