Free Hosting SMTP still not working

[udfdat42]

It is posted on the status page that Free hosting Email has been resolved on 28th June, 2012.

Yet I am getting the same error :-

SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

Kindly update me with what is happening with SMTP and when could we find it working...

I am using PHPmailer with GMail SMTP..

Thankyou

[erepauct]

Works great for me.

[udfdat42]

Works great for me.

Which mail function or library are you using?

My PHP mail function using PHPmailer library :-

<?php

include("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");

function filterEmail($email, $chars = ''){
    $email = trim(str_replace( array("\r","\n"), '', $email ));
    if( is_array($chars) ) $email = str_replace( $chars, '', $email );
    $email = preg_replace( '/(cc\s*\:|bcc\s*\:)/i', '', $email );
    return $email;
}

function smtpmailer($to, $from, $from_name, $subject, $body) {
        $to = filterEmail($to); 
        $from = filterEmail($from);
    global $error;
    $mail = new PHPMailer();  // create a new object
    $mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
    $mail->isHTML();
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 0;  // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;  // authentication enabled
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for GMail
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
    $mail->Port = 465; 
    $mail->Username = filterEmail("------@gmail.com");
    $mail->Password = "------";           
    $mail->SetFrom($from, $from_name);
    $mail->Subject = $subject;
    $mail->Body = $body;
    $mail->AddAddress($to);
    if(!$mail->Send()) {
        $error = 'Mail error: '.$mail->ErrorInfo; 
        return false;
    } else {
        $error = 'Message sent!';
        return true;
    }
}

?>

I called this function as below :-

smtpmailer("------@yahoo.com","------@gmail.com","From Name","Welcome","Test"); 

And when I execute this PHP, I get the following error :-

SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

You can check yourself at - http://ingame.x10.mx/social/test.php

My Free hosting account is on Starka Server.

I am sure that my code is correct as it has worked earlier and also it works on my local server. I haven't made any changes to this code since the SMTP Server was down.

[erepauct]

I'm using whatever comes built into WeBid. It's sending emails perfectly through boru.x10hosting.com outgoing mail server.

Sorry, I'm not that experienced with the code side of it.

Maybe it's a problem with starka server?

[GtoXic]

Hi, the issue with GMail that you're facing is the server not allowing outgoing on port 25. I've alerted the admins about it.

[GtoXic]

Our admin recommends trying again.

[udfdat42]

Our admin recommends trying again.

Sorry for late reply..

I tried again and it works now..

Thanks a ton GToXic and Admins :D

[descalzo]

Hi, the issue with GMail that you're facing is the server not allowing outgoing on port 25. I've alerted the admins about it.

They check all the servers (ie Chopin)?

[GtoXic]

They check all the servers (ie Chopin)?

I believe it may have been an issue that was fixed already judging on the reply from Corey.

[descalzo]

I believe it may have been an issue that was fixed already judging on the reply from Corey.

Email not working again

and my test script on Chopin say differently