has anyone tried to use phpmailer in hostgator?

zulu6595 · #1 04-09-2008, 01:30 PM

I've been pulling my hair out for a whole day. The same code that I have on another server won't work here. If there are some examples, that'd be really sweet.

Sam · #2 04-09-2008, 01:47 PM

What error are you getting?

slapshotw · #3 04-09-2008, 05:26 PM

And can you post your code? Does your other server use PHP5?

episkey · #4 04-09-2008, 07:20 PM

I have PHPmailer working. I would need to edit my script to remove private info before posting, and I don't have time to do that today. I display the form and handle it all in the same page. For mailing I specify smtp with authentication turned on. That works with an email account I created for my primary domain (with a shared non-reseller account) using cPanel.

Make sure you have the correct path for class.phpmailer.php. Also make sure you have $MailServer = mail.yourdomain.com and not smtp.yourdomain.com. When you move a script from one server to another, it's often the little things.

Good luck. When I get a chance to edit my script, I'll post it.

zulu6595 · #5 04-11-2008, 12:55 AM

I was able to get my script working if I change to SMTP server to mail.<mydomain>.com. I was trying to get to an external SMTP server, which doesn't seem to work. Maybe its a firewall issue at hostgator.

episkey · #6 04-11-2008, 04:14 AM

Glad you found a way to get your script working. I did a test and I was able to use an external SMTP server. Specifically, I was able to use a gmail account by following the example script for gmail that is included in the PHPmailer documentation. The key lines seem to be:

$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465;

Here's the entire script from PHPMailer_v2.0.0/docs/use_gmail.txt:

<?php

// example on using PHPMailer with GMAIL

include("class.phpmailer.php");
include("class.smtp.php");

$mail=new PHPMailer();

$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port

$mail->Username = "yourname@gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "password"; // GMAIL password

$mail->From = "replyto@yourdomain.com";
$mail->FromName = "Webmaster";
$mail->Subject = "This is the subject";
$mail->Body = "Hi, This is the HTML BODY "; //HTML Body
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body when user views in plain text format"; //Text Body

$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap

$mail->AddAddress("username@domain.com","First Last");
$mail->AddReplyTo("replyto@yourdomain.com","Webmaster" );
$mail->AddAttachment("/path/to/file.zip"); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment("/path/to/image.jpg", "new.jpg"); // attachment

$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML

if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message has been sent";
}

?>

zulu6595 · #7 04-12-2008, 11:57 PM

Sweet! This will come in handy as I'm using google apps for email.

Rowshan · #8 07-16-2008, 01:47 AM

Mail(): Return True but cannot send
Dear Friends,
I have a script in my website for sending feedback.
It returns TRUE for mail() but it can't send email to receiver at all.
Why?
I have joomla nd drupal in my host but they work good and send emails successfully.
-----------------------------------
My script is as following:

$to = "admin@domain.org";
$sender = $_POST['email'];
$headers = 'From:'.$sender."\r\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/HTML; charset=utf-8'."\r\n";
$body = "<html><body style='font-family: Tahoma;'>".htmlspecialchars(nl2br($_POST['msg']))." ".$_POST['email']."</body></html>";
$send=mail($to, "WadiOnline News (Feedback) > ".$subject, $body, $headers);
if($send){
echo 'Thanks for your feedback!';
} else {
echo 'An Error happened in sending.';
}

Waiting for your ehlp.

slapshotw · #9 07-16-2008, 05:44 PM

Rowshan-- please don't post more than once. I answered in the other thread.

gwyneth · #10 07-16-2008, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slapshotw

Rowshan-- please don't post more than once.

Particularly by digging up an old thread that's about another app.

slapshotw · #11 07-16-2008, 08:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gwyneth

Particularly by digging up an old thread that's about another app.

Yes, it occurs to me I should have answered it here and complained there!

gwyneth · #12 07-16-2008, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slapshotw

Yes, it occurs to me I should have answered it here and complained there!

Nah, better here--the original post was, after all, off-topic itself but I thought it would be piling on to point out that that made digging it up to double-post about another app even worse.

abeer786 · #13 04-03-2011, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by episkey

Glad you found a way to get your script working. I did a test and I was able to use an external SMTP server. Specifically, I was able to use a gmail account by following the example script for gmail that is included in the PHPmailer documentation. The key lines seem to be:

$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 465;

Here's the entire script from PHPMailer_v2.0.0/docs/use_gmail.txt:

<?php

// example on using PHPMailer with GMAIL

include("class.phpmailer.php");
include("class.smtp.php");

$mail=new PHPMailer();

$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port

$mail->Username = "yourname@gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "password"; // GMAIL password

$mail->From = "replyto@yourdomain.com";
$mail->FromName = "Webmaster";
$mail->Subject = "This is the subject";
$mail->Body = "Hi, This is the HTML BODY "; //HTML Body
$mail->AltBody = "This is the body when user views in plain text format"; //Text Body

$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap

$mail->AddAddress("username@domain.com","First Last");
$mail->AddReplyTo("replyto@yourdomain.com","Webmaster" );
$mail->AddAttachment("/path/to/file.zip"); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment("/path/to/image.jpg", "new.jpg"); // attachment

$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML

if(!$mail->Send()) {
echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo "Message has been sent";
}

?>

ok, so I used you're code, have put all the address/gmail information in it...
but when I try to execute it, I'm getting the error
Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

Can anyone give any idea how do I debug the code. Also is there anyway to make sure port 465 is open for my account?

GvilleRick · #14 04-03-2011, 07:23 PM

Probably would have been better to start a new thread rather than reopen a nearly 3 year old thread. The poster of the code you posted hasn't posted in a couple of years.

Anyway, it could well be that the port is closed outgoing on the server but the only way to know for sure is to open a ticket with support and ask them if it is open and/or if it can be opened outgoing.

abeer786 · #15 04-03-2011, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GvilleRick

Probably would have been better to start a new thread rather than reopen a nearly 3 year old thread. The poster of the code you posted hasn't posted in a couple of years.

Anyway, it could well be that the port is closed outgoing on the server but the only way to know for sure is to open a ticket with support and ask them if it is open and/or if it can be opened outgoing.

yes, thought of opening a new thread...but I was using the code in the above post only, so thought it would be better to post here..
ok will contact support and update here