PHP Swift Mailer Not Working with Google Apps

Oct 31, 2011 · 2 minute read
Category: php

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If you are struggling trying to get PHPMailer working with Google Apps then perhaps this is the solution for you.

I went to the PHPMailer site and found my way to a SourceForge download. After a lot of debugging and wrestling with this I just could not get it to work. In the end I looked at other projects that I knew were using PHPMailer for their mail and that were working with Google Apps or Gmail and found that their version was drastically more up to date than the one I downloaded from SourceForge.

In a nutshell - the version I had was never going to work.

A quick update later and I have PHPMailer working with Google Apps.

For reference the version here seems to be the up to date.

Here is some example code that IS working with Google Apps

<pre>
    <?php
    $to = 'info@edmondscommerce.co.uk';
    $message = 'testing swift mailer';

    require("class.phpmailer.php");

    $mail = new PHPMailer();

    $mail->IsSMTP();
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
    $mail->Port = 587;

    $mail->Username = 'your@email.com';
    $mail->Password = 'yourpasswordwhatever';

    $mail->From = $to;
    $mail->FromName = 'test';
    $mail->Subject = 'test';
    $mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap

    $mail->Body = eregi_replace("[\]", '', $message);

    $mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
//To
    $mail->AddAddress($to);
    $mail->SMTPDebug = true;

    $mail->CharSet = 'us-ascii';
    $mail->Encoding = $mail->Charset != 'us-ascii' ? '8bit' : '7bit';

    if (!$mail->Send()) {
        echo "Message could not be sent. <p>";
        echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
        exit;
    }
    echo "Message has been sent";