Trying to send an smtp email using PHPmailer

rs2k2

I'm trying to use PHPMailer to send an email using smtp and php. The server I use needs to have this type of connection:

Server name: mail.example.com
Port: 587
User Name: user
Authentication method: Normal Password
Connection Security: STARTTLS

I can seem to get this to work with phpmailer, I've tried several variations but nothing seems to work. here's the code I'm using:

$mail = new phpmailer;

$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->From        = "email@example.com";
$mail->FromName    = "example.com";
$mail->Host        = "mail.example.com";  // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPSecure  = 'tls';
$mail->SMTPDebug   = 1;
$mail->Port        = 587;                    // set the SMTP port for the server
$mail->SMTPAuth    = false; 
$mail->Username    = "user";
$mail->Password    = "password";
$mail->CharSet     = 'ISO-8859-1';  // so it interprets foreign characters
$mail->AddAddress("otheremail@example.com", "Other");
$mail->AddReplyTo("email@example.com", "example.com");

$mail->IsHTML(true);    // set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body = "This is the message body";
$mail->Send(); // send message

This code gives me this error:

SMTP -> ERROR: MAIL not accepted from server: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

SMTP -> ERROR: RCPT not accepted from server: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

SMTP -> ERROR: DATA command not accepted from server: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

bradgrafelman

For one, you're setting SMTPAuth to false even though you're specifying a username and password. That's rather contradictory.

As for the problem at hand, try changing the SMTPSecure value to "ssl" instead. You might also try prepending 'ssl://' to the host value.

If none of that helps... are you using the latest version of PHPMailer?

EDIT: Also, welcome to PHPBuilder!

rs2k2

Thanks for the quick reply and the welcome.

I tried both true and false for SMTPAuth.

When I change the port to 465, SMTPAuth to true, SMTPSecure to ssl I get the following error in the mail.log file:

postfix/smtpd[8089]: warning: TLS library problem: 8089:error:140760FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_srvr.c:578:

rs2k2

Clarification:
(I changed the name of the server and IPs in the following code)

$mail = new phpmailer;

$mail->IsSMTP(); // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->From = "email@example.com";
$mail->FromName = "example.com";
$mail->Host = "mail.example.com"; // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = "user";
$mail->Password = "password";
$mail->CharSet = 'ISO-8859-1'; // so it interprets foreign characters
$mail->AddAddress("otheremail@example.com", "Other");
$mail->AddReplyTo("email@example.com", "example.com");

$mail->IsHTML(true); // set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body = "This is the message body";
$mail->Send(); // send message

With the above settings, when set to Port 465, PHPMailer give me these errors:

SMTP -> ERROR: HELO not accepted from server:
SMTP -> NOTICE: EOF caught while checking if connected

mail.log give me:
postfix/smtpd[8089]: warning: TLS library problem: 8089:error:140760FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_srvr.c:578:

When I change the port to 587, I get:

SMTP -> ERROR: MAIL not accepted from server: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first
SMTP -> ERROR: RCPT not accepted from server: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first
SMTP -> ERROR: RCPT not accepted from server: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first
SMTP -> ERROR: DATA command not accepted from server: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

mail.log:
postfix/smtpd[8380]: connect from example.com[ip.ip.ip.ip]
postfix/smtpd[8380]: disconnect from example.com[ip.ip.ip.ip]

rs2k2

I'm sorry for the multiple posts, but there doesn't seem to be a way to edit my posts.

When I set the server to: ssl://mail.example.com, I get:

SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: (0)
Mailer Error

Description:
SMTP Error: could not connect to SMTP host server(s)

Yes, I have the newest version of PHPmailer.

Thanks!

sneakyimp

You might also try

$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";

I recall having a very difficult time using PHPMailer to send email via gmail. I solved the problem by using PEAR::Mail.