We use gmail for enterprise. Our email addresses are still all like ‘bob@college.edu’:
This is what I used to successfully test sending an email through PHPMailer. It works, so the password is correct, and the account has been set to allow for 3rd party applications.
This is the phpmailer code and it works:
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
// Server settings
//$mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER; // for detailed debug output
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = ‘smtp.gmail.com’;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->Username = 'bob@college.edu'; // YOUR gmail email
$mail->Password = 'totallyrealpassword'; // YOUR gmail password
// Sender and recipient settings
$mail->setFrom('bob@college.edu', 'Sender Name');
$mail->addAddress('steve@college.edu', 'Receiver Name');
$mail->addReplyTo('bob@college.edu', 'Sender Name'); // to set the reply to
// Setting the email content
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = "Let the email soar";
$mail->Body = 'HTML message body. <b>Gmail</b> SMTP email body.';
$mail->AltBody = 'Plain text message body for non-HTML email client. Gmail SMTP email body.';
$mail->send();
echo "Email message sent.";
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo “Error in sending email. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}”;
}
This is what I have for config.inc.php and it doesn’t work (obviously I’m missing something):
[email]
; Use SMTP for sending mail instead of mail()
smtp = On
; SMTP server settings
smtp_server = smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port = 587
; Enable SMTP authentication
; Supported smtp_auth: ssl, tls (see PHPMailer SMTPSecure)
smtp_auth = ssl
smtp_username = “bob@college.edu”
smtp_password = “totallyrealpassword”
;
; Supported smtp_authtype: RAM-MD5, LOGIN, PLAIN, XOAUTH2 (see PHPMailer AuthType)
; (Leave blank to try them in that order)
smtp_authtype =
; The following are required for smtp_authtype = XOAUTH2 (e.g. GMail OAuth)
; (See Using Gmail with XOAUTH2 · PHPMailer/PHPMailer Wiki · GitHub)
; smtp_oauth_provider = Google
; smtp_oauth_email =
; smtp_oauth_clientid =
; smtp_oauth_clientsecret =
; smtp_oauth_refreshtoken =
; Enable suppressing verification of SMTP certificate in PHPMailer
; Note: this is not recommended per PHPMailer documentation
; smtp_suppress_cert_check = On
; Allow envelope sender to be specified
; (may not be possible with some server configurations)
; allow_envelope_sender = Off
; Default envelope sender to use if none is specified elsewhere
default_envelope_sender = “bob@college.edu”
; Force the default envelope sender (if present)
; This is useful if setting up a site-wide no-reply address
; The reply-to field will be set with the reply-to or from address.
; force_default_envelope_sender = Off
; Force a DMARC compliant from header (RFC5322.From)
; If any of your users have email addresses in domains not under your control
; you may need to set this to be compliant with DMARC policies published by
; those 3rd party domains.
; Setting this will move the users address into the reply-to field and the
; from field wil be rewritten with the default_envelope_sender.
; To use this you must set force_default_enveloper_sender = On and
; default_envelope_sender must be set to a valid address in a domain you own.
; force_dmarc_compliant_from = Off
; The display name to use with a DMARC compliant from header
; By default the DMARC compliant from will have an empty name but this can
; be changed by adding a text here.
; You can use ‘%n’ to insert the users name from the original from header
; and ‘%s’ to insert the localized sitename.
; dmarc_compliant_from_displayname = ‘%n via %s’
; Amount of time required between attempts to send non-editorial emails
; in seconds. This can be used to help prevent email relaying via OJS.
time_between_emails = 3600
; Maximum number of recipients that can be included in a single email
; (either as To:, Cc:, or Bcc: addresses) for a non-privileged user
max_recipients = 10
; If enabled, email addresses must be validated before login is possible.
require_validation = Off
; Maximum number of days before an unvalidated account expires and is deleted
validation_timeout = 14
The error message given is a vague “Connection failed” followed by a link to PHPMailer’s github.