Sending emails through SMTP with PHPMailer

Question

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 -> FROM SERVER: 
SMTP -> FROM SERVER: 
SMTP -> ERROR: EHLO not accepted from server: 

Notice: fputs() [function.fputs]: send of 18 bytes failed with errno=32 Roura přerušena (SIGPIPE) in /home/www/amazonek.cz/subdomains/library/PHPMailer_v5.1/class.smtp.php on line 494
SMTP -> FROM SERVER: 
SMTP -> ERROR: HELO not accepted from server: 

Notice: fputs() [function.fputs]: send of 12 bytes failed with errno=32 Roura přerušena (SIGPIPE) in /home/www/amazonek.cz/subdomains/library/PHPMailer_v5.1/class.smtp.php on line 212
SMTP -> 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->IsSMTP();
            $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
            $mail->Host = SMTP_SERVER;
            $mail->Port = SMTP_PORT;
            $mail->Username = SMTP_USERNAME;
            $mail->Password = SMTP_PASSWORD;
            $mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
            $mail->SetFrom(MAIL_ORDERS_ADDRESS, MAIL_ORDERS_NAME);
            $mail->Subject = 'AMAZONEK.cz - objednávka číslo '.$_SESSION['orderId'];
            $mail->MsgHTML('<b>Ahoj</b>');
            $mail->AddAddress($_SESSION['user']['email'], $_SESSION['user']['name'].' '.$_SESSION['user']['surname']);
            $mail->AddBCC(MAIL_ORDERS_ADDRESS, MAIL_ORDERS_NAME);

            if(!$mail->Send()) throw new Exception($mail->ErrorInfo);
        }
        catch(Exception $e){
            echo $e->getMessage();
        }

Constants definition:

define('SMTP_SERVER', 'smtp.ebola.cz');
define('SMTP_PORT', 465);
define('SMTP_USERNAME', '[email protected]');
define('SMTP_PASSWORD', '***CENSORED***');

define('MAIL_ORDERS_ADDRESS', '[email protected]');
define('MAIL_ORDERS_NAME', 'My Name');

Any ideas?

Answer 1

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->SMTPSecure = 'tls';

If you want to use SMTPS (SSL), try adding:

$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';

Keep in mind that:

• Some SMTP servers can forbid connections from "outsiders".
• Some SMTP servers don't support SSL (or TLS) connections.

Maybe this example can help (GMail secure SMTP).

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