Sending emails through SMTP with PHPMailer

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I m trying to send SMTP e-mails using PHPMailer  but I keep getting this error message  any ideas how to get rid of it  I m trying to connect via SSL on port 465   SMTP - gt  FROM SERVER   SMTP - gt  FROM SERVER   SMTP - gt  ERROR  EHLO not accepted from server    Notice  fputs    function fputs   send of 18 bytes failed with errno 32 Roura preru  ena  SIGPIPE  in  home www amazonek cz subdomains library PHPMailer v5 1 class smtp php on line 494 SMTP - gt  FROM SERVER   SMTP - gt  ERROR  HELO not accepted from server    Notice  fputs    function fputs   send of 12 bytes failed with errno 32 Roura preru  ena  SIGPIPE  in  home www amazonek cz subdomains library PHPMailer v5 1 class smtp php on line 212 SMTP - gt  ERROR  AUTH not accepted from server   SMTP Error  Could not authenticate    My code     require once     library PHPMailer v5 1 class phpmailer php             try               mail   new PHPMailer true                mail- gt IsSMTP                 mail- gt SMTPAuth   true               mail- gt Host   SMTP SERVER               mail- gt Port   SMTP PORT               mail- gt Username   SMTP USERNAME               mail- gt Password   SMTP PASSWORD               mail- gt SMTPDebug   2               mail- gt SetFrom MAIL ORDERS ADDRESS  MAIL ORDERS NAME                mail- gt Subject    AMAZONEK cz - objedn  vka c  slo     SESSION  orderId                 mail- gt MsgHTML   lt b gt Ahoj lt  b gt                  mail- gt AddAddress   SESSION  user    email      SESSION  user    name         SESSION  user    surname                  mail- gt AddBCC MAIL ORDERS ADDRESS  MAIL ORDERS NAME                if   mail- gt Send    throw new Exception  mail- gt ErrorInfo                     catch Exception  e               echo  e- gt getMessage                Constants definition   define  SMTP SERVER    smtp ebola cz    define  SMTP PORT   465   define  SMTP USERNAME    myEmail myDomain tld    define  SMTP PASSWORD       CENSORED        define  MAIL ORDERS ADDRESS    myEmail myDomain tld    define  MAIL ORDERS NAME    My Name      Any ideas

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I had very similar problem for something like an hour  until I figured out what went wrong  My problem was  that I used SSL  instead of ssl  Check is case sensitive in the code   AlexV guided me to the source of the problem  That helo ehlo -stuff seems irrelevant

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try port 25 instead of 456   I got the same error when using port 456  and changing it to 25 worked for me

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As far as I can see everything is right with your code  Your error is   SMTP Error  Could not authenticate   Which means that the credentials you ve sending are rejected by the SMTP server  Make sure the host  port  username and password are good  If you want to use STARTTLS  try adding   mail- gt SMTPSecure    tls    If you want to use SMTPS  SSL   try adding   mail- gt SMTPSecure    ssl    Keep in mind that   Some SMTP servers can forbid connections from  quot outsiders quot   Some SMTP servers don t support SSL  or TLS  connections   Maybe this example can help  GMail secure SMTP    Source

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Simple smtp client with php stream socket with tls ssl smtp STARTTLS command  https   github com breakermind PhpMimeParser blob master PhpSmtpSslSocketClient php   works with gmail com with authenticate    lt  php    Login email and password  login    your-email cool xx    pass    123456    ini set  display errors   1   ini set  display startup errors   1   error reporting E ALL     ctx   stream context create    stream context set option  ctx   ssl    verify peer   false   stream context set option  ctx   ssl    verify peer name   false   try         echo  socket   stream socket client  ssl   smtp gmail com 587    err   errstr  60  STREAM CLIENT CONNECT   ctx       echo  socket   stream socket client  tcp   smtp gmail com 587    err   errstr  60  STREAM CLIENT CONNECT   ctx       if    socket            print  Failed to connect  err  errstr n           return       else             Http            fwrite  socket   GET   HTTP 1 0 r nHost  www example com r nAccept      r n r n               Smtp         echo fread  socket 8192           echo fwrite  socket   EHLO cool xx r n            echo fread  socket 8192               Start tls connection         echo fwrite  socket   STARTTLS r n            echo fread  socket 8192            echo stream socket enable crypto  socket  true  STREAM CRYPTO METHOD SSLv23 CLIENT               Send ehlo         echo fwrite  socket   EHLO cool xx r n            echo fread  socket 8192               echo fwrite  socket   MAIL FROM   lt hello cool com gt  r n               echo fread  socket 8192            echo fwrite  socket   AUTH LOGIN r n            echo fread  socket 8192            echo fwrite  socket  base64 encode  login    r n            echo fread  socket 8192            echo fwrite  socket  base64 encode  pass    r n            echo fread  socket 8192            echo fwrite  socket   rcpt to   lt to-email boome com gt  r n            echo fread  socket 8192            echo fwrite  socket   DATA n            echo fread  socket 8192            echo fwrite  socket   Date    time     r nTo   lt to-email boome com gt  r nFrom  lt zour-email cool xx r nSubject Hello from php socket tls r n  r n            echo fread  socket 8192            echo fwrite  socket   QUIT  n            echo fread  socket 8192               Turn off encryption for the rest               stream socket enable crypto  fp  false            fclose  socket          catch Exception  e       echo  e

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Try to send an e-mail through that SMTP server manually from an interactive mailer  e g  Mozilla Thunderbird   From the errors  it seems the server won t accept your credentials  Is that SMTP running on the port  or is it SSL SMTP  You don t seem to be using secure connection in the code you ve posted  and I m not sure if PHPMailer actually supports SSL SMTP    First result of googling your SMTP server s hostname  http   podpora ebola cz idx php 0 006 article Strucny-technicky-popis-nastaveni-sluzeb html seems to say  SMTPs mail sending  secure SSL connection port  465       It looks like PHPMailer does support SSL  at least from this  So  you ll need to change this   define  SMTP SERVER    smtp ebola cz      into this   define  SMTP SERVER    ssl   smtp ebola cz

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Yes  you need OpenSSL to work correctly   My backup testing site worked  my live server didn t   Difference   Live server didn t have OpenSSL within PHP configuration

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SMTP -  FROM SERVER    SMTP -  FROM SERVER    SMTP -  ERROR  EHLO not accepted from server    that s typical of trying to connect to a SSL service with a client that s not using SSL     SMTP Error  Could not authenticate    no suprise there having failed to start an SMTP conversation  authentigation is not an option    phpmailer doesn t do implicit SSL  aka TLS on connect  SMTPS   Short of rewriting smtp class php to include support for it there it no way to do what you ask   Use port 587 with explicit SSL  aka TLS  STARTTLS  instead

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This may seem like a shot in the dark but make sure PHP has been complied with OpenSSL if SMTP requires SSL   To check use phpinfo    Hope it helps

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