PHPMailer - SMTP ERROR Password command failed when send mail from my server

Question

I have used phpmailer   concept to send mail to users from my shared server using php script  but I m not able to send even though everything is right in my script according to phpmailer code   My code like this       message     This is testing message from my server       mail   new PHPMailer       create a new object    mail- gt IsSMTP       enable SMTP    mail- gt Host    smtp gmail com      mail- gt SMTPDebug   1     debugging  1   errors and messages  2   messages only    mail- gt SMTPAuth   true     authentication enabled    mail- gt SMTPSecure    ssl      secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for GMail    mail- gt Port   465     or 587    mail- gt IsHTML true      mail- gt Username    moorthi mrk10 gmail com      My gmail username    mail- gt Password                      My Gmail Password    mail- gt SetFrom  moorthi mrk10 gmail com       mail- gt Subject    Test Mail from my Server      mail- gt Body    message     mail- gt AddAddress  email      if  mail- gt Send                print json encode  SUCCESS      else       echo  Mailer Error       mail- gt ErrorInfo       Note   I have used   GMail   as  my SMTP server and SMTPSecure is    ssl   and port is  465  and username  amp  passwords are my GMail username  amp  password  I used VPS shared server and I kept my php script on that server   I think there is no problem in my php script and I don t know why it doesn t work   I got the ERROR like this     2014-02-21 12 30 11   CLIENT - gt  SERVER  EHLO jkcorporates com   2014-02-21 12 30 11   CLIENT - gt  SERVER  AUTH LOGIN   2014-02-21 12 30 11   CLIENT - gt  SERVER  bW9vcnRoaS5tcmsxMEBnbWFpbC5jb20    2014-02-21 12 30 11   CLIENT - gt  SERVER  OTk0MTI0MTE0MA     2014-02-21 12 30 11   SMTP ERROR  Password command failed  534-5 7 14    534-5 7 14 i- eumA gt  Please log in via your web browser and then try again    534 5 7 14 54 k76sm17979938yho 18 - gsmtp   2014-02-21 12 30 11   CLIENT - gt  SERVER  QUIT     The ERROR is     SMTP connect   failed    Please give some solution for that  Thanks in Advance   Remember  I use Shared Server Name  VPS mydomain com  and I want to use GMail as my SMTP server to send mail to users

User · Answer

If you are G Suit user it can be solved by Administrator

Go to your Admin panel
Type in top search bar «Security» (Select Security with Shield icon)
Open Basic settings
Goto Less secure apps section
Press: Go to settings for less secure apps ››

And now select one of Radio Button a) Disable access to less secure apps for all users (Recommended) b) Allow users to manage their access to less secure apps c) Enforce access to less secure apps for all users (Not Recommended)

Usually It does not working because of a)! And will start working immediately with c) option. b) – option will need more configuration for each user in GSuit

Hope it helps

User · Answer

As others already suggested  you can enable the  less secure  applications or you can simply switch from ssl to tls    mailer- gt Host    tls   smtp gmail com    mailer- gt SMTPAuth   true   mailer- gt Username    xxx gmail com    mailer- gt Password           mailer- gt SMTPSecure    tls    mailer- gt Port   587    When using tls there s no need to grant access for less secure applications  just make sure  IMAP is enabled

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Just in caser anyone ends here like me  In may case despite having enabled  unsecure access to my google account  it refused to send the email throwing an SMTP ERROR  Password command failed  534-5 7 14   Solution found at https   know mailsbestfriend com smtp error password command failed 5345714-1194946499 shtml  Steps   log into your google account  Go to https   accounts google com b 0 DisplayUnlockCaptcha and click continue to enable   Setup your phpmailer as smtp with ssl   mail   new PHPMailer true     mail- gt CharSet    quot utf-8 quot    mail- gt SMTPDebug   SMTP  DEBUG SERVER     or 0 for no debuggin at all          mail- gt isSMTP     mail- gt Host    smtp gmail com    mail- gt Port   465    mail- gt SMTPSecure   PHPMailer  ENCRYPTION SMTPS    mail- gt SMTPAuth     true   mail- gt Username    yourgmailaccount    mail- gt Password    yourpassword      And the other  mail object properties as needed  Hope it helps someone

User · Answer

Use this   https   www google com settings u 1 security lesssecureapps https   accounts google com b 0 DisplayUnlockCaptcha https   security google com settings security activity hl en amp pli 1   this link allow acces to google account   UPDATE 19-05-2017   These url you must to visit from the IP address that will be send email

User · Answer

This error is due to more security features of gmail    Once this error is generated   Please login to your gmail account  there you can find security alert from GOOGLE  follow the mail   check on click for less secure option  Then try again phpmailer

User · Answer

Login to your Gmail account using the web browser   Click on this link to enable applications to access your account  https   accounts google com b 0 DisplayUnlockCaptcha  Click on Continue button to complete the step   Now try again to send the email from your PHP script  It should work

User · Answer

A bit late  but perhaps someone will find it useful   Links that fix the problem  you must be logged into google account    https   security google com settings security activity hl en amp pli 1  https   www google com settings u 1 security lesssecureapps  https   accounts google com b 0 DisplayUnlockCaptcha  Some explanation of what happens   This problem can be caused by either  less secure  applications trying to use the email account  this is according to google help  not sure how they judge what is secure and what is not  OR if you are trying to login several time in a row OR if you change countries  for example use VPN  move code to different server or actually try to login from different part of the world    To resolve I had to   first time    login to my account via web view recent attempts to use the account and accept suspicious access  THIS LINK disable the feature of blocking suspicious apps technologies  THIS LINK   This worked the first time  but few hours later  probably because I was doing a lot of testing the problem reappeared and was not fixable using the above method  In addition I had to clear the captcha  the funny picture  which asks you to rewrite a word or a sentence when logging into any account nowadays too many times       after login to my account I went HERE Clicked continue    Hope this helps

User · Answer

For those who are still unable to get it working  try the following in addition to the method provided by  CallMeBob   PHP ini   Go to C  xampp php   edit php ini file with notepad  Press CTRL F on your keyboard  input sendmail path on the search bar and click Find Next twice  Right now  you should be at the  mail munction  section     Remove the semicolon for this line   sendmail path      C  xampp sendmail sendmail exe   -t  Add a semicolon for this line  sendmail path  C  xampp mailtodisk mailtodisk exe   SendMail ini   Go to C  xampp sendmail  edit sendmail ini file with notepad Change the following      smtp server smtp gmail com smtp port 465 auth username your-gmail-username gmail com auth password your-gmail-password force sender your-gmail-username gmail com     Note     smtp port must tally with your those written in your php code     Remember to change your-gmail-username and your-gmail-password to whichever account you are using        Hope this helps

User · Answer

Solved the problem - PHPMailer - SMTP ERROR  Password command failed when send mail from my server      require once  class phpmailer php        include  class smtp php          nameField     POST  name         emailField     POST  email         messageField     POST  message         phoneField     POST  contactno         cityField     POST  city      mail   new PHPMailer true      the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors  which we need to catch   mail- gt IsSMTP       telling the class to use SMTP   body     nameField   try           mail- gt Host          mail gmail com      SMTP server        mail- gt SMTPDebug    2                         enables SMTP debug information  for testing         mail- gt SMTPAuth     true                      enable SMTP authentication        mail- gt SMTPSecure    ssl                      sets the prefix to the servier        mail- gt Host          smtp gmail com           sets GMAIL as the SMTP server        mail- gt Port         465       set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server        mail- gt SMTPKeepAlive   true         mail- gt Mailer    smtp          mail- gt Username      xxxxx gmail com       GMAIL username        mail- gt Password                               GMAIL password        mail- gt AddAddress  sendto gmail com    abc           mail- gt SetFrom  xxxxxx gmail com    def           mail- gt Subject    PHPMailer Test Subject via mail    advanced          mail- gt AltBody    To view the message  please use an HTML compatible email viewer       optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically        mail- gt MsgHTML  body          mail- gt Send          echo  Message Sent OK lt  p gt  n         header  location     test html      catch  phpmailerException  e          echo  e- gt errorMessage      Pretty error messages from PHPMailer   catch  Exception  e          echo  e- gt getMessage      Boring error messages from anything else      Important    Go to google Setting and do  less secure  applications enables  It will work  It Worked for Me

User · Answer

I face the same problem  and think that I do know why this happens    The gmail account that I use is normally used from India  and the webserver that I use is located in The Netherlands    Google notifies that there was a login attempt from am unusualy location and requires to login from that location via a web browser   Furthermore I had to accept suspicious access to the gmail account via https   security google com settings security activity  But in the end my problem is not yet solved  because I have to login to gmail from a location in The Netherlands   I hope this will help you a little   sorry  I do not read email replies on this email address

User · Answer

Your mail won t be sent online unless you complete the two-step verification for your g-mail account and use that password

User · Answer

You need to use an APP password  Visit this link to view how to create one

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