Configuring MantisBT to send emails using GMail

Question

I am new to Mantis bug tracker and I want to enable the email notification after registering for a new account.

Well, I installed the MantisBT correctly without any problem on my local computer, I already changed the admin's password and removed the admin folder in the directory. After this I signed up for a new account, there was a confirmation message flashed saying that I need to verify my registration via email. My problem here is that no verification message was sent to my email. According to one of the tutorials I found, I need to configure first my config_inc.php. After the installation, the initial content of my config_inc.php was

<?php
$g_hostname      = 'localhost';
$g_db_username   = '<myUser>';
$g_db_password   = '<myPass>';
$g_database_name = 'bugtracker';
$g_db_type       = 'mysql';
?>

So I changed it to. *I am using my gmail account here

<?php
$g_hostname      = 'localhost';
$g_db_username   = '<myUser>';
$g_db_password   = '<myPass>';
$g_database_name = 'bugtracker';
$g_db_type       = 'mysql';

$g_allow_signup             = ON;
$g_allow_anonymous_login    = OFF;
$g_anonymous_account        = '';

$g_phpMailer_method     = PHPMAILER_METHOD_SMTP; 
$g_smtp_host            = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$g_smtp_username        = '<[email protected]>';
$g_smtp_password        = '<myPass>';
$g_administrator_email  = '<[email protected]>';
$g_webmaster_email      = '<[email protected]>';
$g_from_name            = 'Mantis Bug Tracker';
$g_from_email           = '<[email protected]>';
$g_return_path_email    = '<[email protected]>';
$g_email_receive_own    = OFF;
$g_email_send_using_cronjob = OFF;

$g_allow_file_upload    = ON;
$g_file_upload_method   = DATABASE;
$g_absolute_path_default_upload_folder = '';
$g_max_file_size        = 5000000;
$g_preview_attachments_inline_max_size = 256 * 1024;
$g_allowed_files        = '';
$g_disallowed_files     = '';

$g_window_title         = 'MantisBT';
$g_logo_image           = 'images/mantis_logo.gif';
$g_favicon_image        = 'images/favicon.ico';

$g_show_realname = OFF;
$g_show_user_realname_threshold = NOBODY;

$g_default_home_page = 'my_view_page.php';
?>

I overwrite my config_inc.php with this one and then register for a new account. After submitting the information, an error occured saying:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method SMTP::getError() in < myDirectory >\mantis\library\phpmailer\class.phpmailer.php on line 1910.

And now I'm stucked, please help me with this, I need to setup my email notification. I was just creating accounts but I cannot use them because I need to verify it.

Please let me know if I need to modify some of the related files and what are the steps.

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

According to a posting on the MantisBT forums, these are working settings for GMail:

$g_phpMailer_method = PHPMAILER_METHOD_SMTP;
$g_smtp_host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$g_smtp_username = '[email protected]';
$g_smtp_password = 'yourpassword';
$g_smtp_connection_mode = 'ssl';
$g_smtp_port = 465;