Question
Email Issues
I've moved my app over to digitalocean but my notifications aren't working. I'm using Ubuntu. I'm using php mailer and using the following function
function sendEmail($subject, $body, $altbody, $fromEmail, $fromName, $replyToEmail, $to, $cc, $bcc)
{
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->IsSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com'; // Specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'GMAIL ADDRESS'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'PASSWORD'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable encryption, 'ssl' also accepted
$mail->From = $fromEmail;
$mail->FromName = $fromName;
//$mail->AddAddress('RECIPIENT EMAIL'); // Add a recipient
$mail->AddReplyTo($replyToEmail);
$mail->AddAddress($to); // Name is optional
$mail->AddCC($cc);
$mail->AddBCC($bcc);
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // Set word wrap to 50 characters
//$mail->AddAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz'); // Add attachments
//$mail->AddAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg'); // Optional name
$mail->IsHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->AltBody = $altbody;
if(!$mail->Send())
{
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
exit;
}
else
{
echo "Message has been sent";
}
but I'm getting the error
"Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: SMTP Connect() failed.thorn@BlackThorn:~$ "
What should I be using?
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