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I’ve just installed 3.2.3 on xampp (running PHP 5.6.14)

and made the following changes in the config file:

define(“PHPMAILERHOST”,‘smtp.domain.com’);
$phpmailer_smtpuser = ‘your_mail_username’;
$phpmailer_smtppassword = ‘your_mail_password’;
define(‘PHPMAILERPORT’,465);
define(“PHPMAILER_SECURE”,‘tls’);

However, the test mail i tried sending failed.

What other changes must I make?

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See this topic for how to enable smtp debug Upgrade 3.2.3 and SMTP

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With “SMTPDebug = 4”, I resent the test message. What does the following error message mean?

2015-12-05 13:38:54 Connection: opening to smtp.myserver.com:465, timeout=5, options=array ( ) 2015-12-05 13:38:54 Connection: opened 2015-12-05 13:38:59 SMTP -> get_lines(): $data is “” 2015-12-05 13:38:59 SMTP -> get_lines(): $str is “” 2015-12-05 13:38:59 SMTP -> get_lines(): timed-out (5 sec) 2015-12-05 13:38:59 SERVER -> CLIENT: 2015-12-05 13:38:59 CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO localhost 2015-12-05 13:38:59 SMTP -> get_lines(): $data is “” 2015-12-05 13:38:59 SMTP -> get_lines(): $str is “” 2015-12-05 13:38:59 SERVER -> CLIENT: 2015-12-05 13:38:59 SMTP ERROR: EHLO command failed: 2015-12-05 13:38:59 SMTP NOTICE: EOF caught while checking if connected 2015-12-05 13:38:59 Connection: closed 2015-12-05 13:38:59 SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. 2015-12-05 13:38:59 SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting

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I guess that the port you are trying to use is being blocked. Can you try using an unencrypted connection?

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This may be of help?

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Success. You made my day duncanc. Thank you.