PHPMailer help...again

[ellescuba27]

So unfortunately, I need help with PHPMailer again. I have a pretty poor knowledge with PHPMailer or any PHP at all, really. But my problem is I can't connect to SMTP host. I get error 111 when debugging "The connection was refused by the server".

Here is my code:

<?php
require_once("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$error = null;
function smtpmailer($to, $subject, $message, $winerror, $failerror) {
global $error;
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "mail.theeducator.elementfx.com";
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->Username = "(username blocked)";
$mail->Password = "(password blocked)";
$mail->SetFrom("(email blocked)", "The Educator");
$mail->AddReplyTo("(email blocked)", "The Educator");
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->AddAddress($to, "Our Friend");
if($mail->Send()) {
$error = false;
echo $winerror;
} else {
$error = true;
echo $failerror;
}
}
?>

Now here's a question. Recently I signed up for dot.tk with my subdomain. I set it to forward to my address, so I figured it wouldn't be a problem, but I wonder if that is the cause? Everything seemed to be working before with the exact same code. Also, just this morning, there was an alert about issues with the datacentre, so that could also be the cause. Whatever it is, I hope I can solve it soon, because this is not just emails to myself anymore (I have not reached the 100 mail limit yet, just so you know).

[ellescuba27]

Somebody help me please? The randomness of it is the most annoying part!

[charliehickling60]

Odd...

[ellescuba27]

I typed the correct mail server, username and password.

[ellescuba27]

Please help!
Ok, so here's what happened now. Decided to use DNS with dot.tk, so I changed my address to a .tk address. I decided to use the far safer SSL email login. But it still gives me an error, different this time. Now it gives me error 535. What's going on with email? Same code, different server, different port, SSL enabled.