phpmailer and gmail SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Network is unreachable (101) SMTP connect() failed

Question

I need help please this is my code:

require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;

$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->Port = 587;

$mail->Username = '[email protected]';
$mail->Password = 'somepass';
$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Josh Adams');
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer GMail SMTP test';
$body = 'This is the HTML message body in bold!';
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
if (!$mail->send()) {
    echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
    echo "Message sent!";
}

and I get this error: 2013-12-11 15:15:02 SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Network is unreachable (101) SMTP connect() failed. Mailer Error: SMTP connect() failed.

any help please?

Answer 1

This worked for me:

change:

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

to

  $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
  $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
  $mail->Port = '587';

Answer 2

The code below:

$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Host = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465';

Answer 3

I was facing the same issues on Godaddy hosting so I spend lots of time and fix it by disabling the SMTP restriction on the server end.

SMTP code is for PHPMailer

 $mail = new PHPMailer(true);

try {
    //Server settings
    //$mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER;                       //Enable verbose debug output
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 2;                       //Enable verbose debug output           
    //$mail->isSMTP();                                             //Send using SMTP

    $mail->Host         = "tls://smtp.gmail.com";
    $mail->SMTPAuth     = true;
    $mail->Username     = [email protected];
    $mail->Password     = SMTP_PASSWORD;
    $mail->SMTPSecure   = "tls";
    $mail->Port         = 587;
    $mail->SMTPOptions = array(
        'ssl' => array(
            'verify_peer' => false,
            'verify_peer_name' => false,
            'allow_self_signed' => true
        )
    );
    //Recipients
    $mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Online Order');
    $mail->addAddress('[email protected]');     //Add a recipient
    $mail->addReplyTo('[email protected]', 'Jewellery');
   

    //Attachments
    //$mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz');         //Add attachments
    //$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg');    //Optional name

    //Content
    $mail->isHTML(true);                                  //Set email format to HTML
    $mail->Subject = 'Order';
    $mail->Body    = 'This is test email content';
    $mail->AltBody = 'This is test email content';

    if($mail->send()){
        return '1';                 
    }else{
        return 'Order email sending failed';
    }