PHPMailer: Using remote SMTP server, works under localhost, Connection refused (111) on remote server

email, php, phpmailer, smtp

Solution

I think you should perform two step 1) check your port as suggested on godaddy support http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/319/what-do-i-do-if-i-have-trouble-connecting-to-my-email-account 2)use "relay-hosting.secureserver.net" as your host instead of "smtpout.secureserver.net"

GoDaddy does allow to send emails using Gmail as your SMTP, just need to get rid of the smtp.gmail.com and use their Host instead. This is my setup:

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = "relay-hosting.secureserver.net";
$mail->Username = "your-account@gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "yourpassword";
// ...
// send from, send to, body, etc...

Reference (see first two posts) http://support.godaddy.com/groups/web-hosting/forum/topic/phpmailer-with-godaddy-smtp-email-server-script-working/

Problem

I've got a bizarre problem here. I'm trying to use PHPMailer to send an email, through SMTP. I have a website hosted by GoDaddy and it's that SMTP account that I'm trying to use to send the mail. - It works if I execute my PHP file on my localhost server. - It does not work if I execute my PHP file on GoDaddy's server. The error message I get is: `SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111)` I checked `phpinfo` on both localhost and the remote server. Both have `smtp_port` listed as `25`. I'm using WAMP on my machine and the server is some form of Linux (which I know nothing about and have no idea how to administer). Here is the code in question: INDEX.PHP: ``` <?php date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles'); include_once("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php"); $mail = new PHPMailer; $mail->SMTPDebug = 1; $mail->Port = 25; $mail->IsSMTP(); $mail->Host = 'smtpout.secureserver.net'; $mail->SMTPAuth = true; $mail->Username = 'username@site.com'; $mail->Password = 'super_secret_password'; $mail->SMTPSecure = ''; // tried ssl and tls, with same result $mail->ClearAddresses(); $mail->AddAddress('receiver@hotmail.com', 'Receiver Name'); $mail->From = "username@site.com"; $mail->FromName = "Username"; $mail->Subject = 'Hi there'; $mail->Body = "This is a message"; if ($mail->Send()) { echo "Message sent!\n"; } else { echo "Message failed!\n"; print_r($mail->ErrorInfo); } exit(); ?> ```

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