Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com

2
votes

Trying to send email with Swiftmailer, I got this error. I've configured swiftmailer with:

transport: smtp
host: smtp.gmail.com
username: [email protected]
password: password
port: 587
encryption: ssl

I always get this error message:

Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com

I've also tried with:

transport: gmail
host: smtp.gmail.com
username: [email protected]
password: password
port: 587
encryption: ssl

The complete error message is

[YYYY-mm-dd hh:ii:ss] app.ERROR: Exception occurred while flushing email queue: Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com [ #0]

Other questions:

My case is different from this. In my case I've not Avast antivirus.

EDIT: changing port to 465, as Alex Howansky suggested, erro changes in

Exception occurred while flushing email queue: Failed to authenticate on SMTP server with username "my email address" using 1 possible authenticators

2
phpswiftmailer
Port 587 is not SSL. You probably want port 465. See here. – Alex Howansky
You might need to toggle the "Use Less Secure Apps" setting as described here. – Alex Howansky
Already done. Thank you for the suggestion. – sensorario
Is your username a gmail account, or is it something else? – skagzilla

2 Answers

0
votes

1: Either you must allow less secure apps or use app password by enabling 2 step verification on your gmail acc. 2: Disable any antivirus on your machine(this is something no one will tell u but is necessary in many cases). 3: Don't forget to clear your cache (sometimes it don't take updated content from .env file) 4: You don't need to change anything in Mailer inside config directory(not recommended), you should use env variables

-1
votes

it's looking for the server smtp.gmail.com but isn't able to resolve it. use this domain smtp.gmail.com and port 25 or 465.