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BrainPill

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I downloaded a piece of software from github but I can not really get it working, so I would like to get some tips of people who have used  this.

The name of the script is PHPMailer. I have the latest version.

I decided to use  gmail for smtp. with autentication.

In the troubleshooting they recommended to use composer, but I dont get what / why they want it.

What is composer used for? As far as i get it is used to run php commands from a command line. 

 

This my script:

 

<?php 

// Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace
// These must be at the top of your script, not inside a function
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

//Load composer's autoloader
//require 'vendor/autoload.php';

require 'A:\wamp64\www\PHPMailer\src\Exception.php';
require 'A:\wamp64\www\PHPMailer\src\PHPMailer.php';
require 'A:\wamp64\www\PHPMailer\src\SMTP.php';



$mail = new PHPMailer(true);                              // Passing `true` enables exceptions
try {
    //Server settings
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 4;                                 // Enable verbose debug output
    $mail->isSMTP();                                      // Set mailer to use SMTP
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';  // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;                               // Enable SMTP authentication
    $mail->Username = 'my.own.gmail@gmail.com';                 // SMTP username
    $mail->Password = '12345fake';                           // SMTP password
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';                            // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
    $mail->Port = 587;                                    // TCP port to connect to

    //Recipients
    $mail->setFrom('my.own.gmail@gmail.com', 'My Own Gmail');
    $mail->addAddress('recipient.person999@gmail.com', 'John Doe');     // Add a recipient
 //   $mail->addAddress('ellen@example.com');               // Name is optional
  //  $mail->addReplyTo('info@example.com', 'Information');
 //   $mail->addCC('cc@example.com');
 //   $mail->addBCC('bcc@example.com');

    //Attachments
//    $mail->addAttachment('/var/tmp/file.tar.gz');         // Add attachments
 //   $mail->addAttachment('/tmp/image.jpg', 'new.jpg');    // Optional name

    //Content
    $mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML
    $mail->Subject = 'To John Doe (test mail) ';
    $mail->Body    = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
    $mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';

    $mail->send();
    echo 'Message has been sent';
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Message could not be sent.';
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

?>

 

when running the script I dont receive an email and I get the following output with a message:

2018-01-05 13:21:25 Connection failed. Error #2: stream_socket_enable_crypto(): SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages:error:14090086:SSL routines:ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed [A:\wamp64\www\PHPMailer\src\SMTP.php line 404]
SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
2018-01-05 13:21:25 CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT

see the complete output here:

Quote

2018-01-05 13:21:25 Connection: opening to smtp.gmail.com:587, timeout=300, options=array()
2018-01-05 13:21:25 Connection: opened
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SMTP INBOUND: "220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP o15sm3865380edk.25 - gsmtp"
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP o15sm3865380edk.25 - gsmtp
2018-01-05 13:21:25 CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO 127.0.0.1
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SMTP INBOUND: "250-smtp.gmail.com at your service, [12.34.567.890]"
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SMTP INBOUND: "250-SIZE 35882577"
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SMTP INBOUND: "250-8BITMIME"
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SMTP INBOUND: "250-STARTTLS"
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SMTP INBOUND: "250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES"
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SMTP INBOUND: "250-PIPELINING"
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SMTP INBOUND: "250-CHUNKING"
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SMTP INBOUND: "250 SMTPUTF8"
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-smtp.gmail.com at your service, [12.34.567.890]250-SIZE 35882577250-8BITMIME250-STARTTLS250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES250-PIPELINING250-CHUNKING250 SMTPUTF8
2018-01-05 13:21:25 CLIENT -> SERVER: STARTTLS
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SMTP INBOUND: "220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS"
2018-01-05 13:21:25 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
2018-01-05 13:21:25 Connection failed. Error #2: stream_socket_enable_crypto(): SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages:error:14090086:SSL routines:ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed [A:\wamp64\www\PHPMailer\src\SMTP.php line 404]
SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
2018-01-05 13:21:25 CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT
2018-01-05 13:21:25
2018-01-05 13:21:25
2018-01-05 13:21:25
2018-01-05 13:21:25
2018-01-05 13:21:25
2018-01-05 13:21:25
2018-01-05 13:21:25
2018-01-05 13:21:25 Connection: closed
SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.
Message could not be sent.Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

 

I'm curious what causes this error and would like to solve it.

 

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

not sure if this is for my host.

I have phpmailer + composer installed under WAMP (windows 10) 

I checked if I had verify_peer in scripts  in the phpmailer directory but nothing was found.

I installed the latest version of phpmailer (version 6.0.2) 

I'm desperate and dont know how to solve this.

 

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I found my error.

I solved it by adding the following piece of code

$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
    'ssl' => array(
        'verify_peer' => false,
        'verify_peer_name' => false,
        'allow_self_signed' => true
    )
);

I first tried to improve the old install (which suddenly stopped working some time ago) and then searched in the scripts for verify_peer and found it in the old install.

I now realize I can just add it to the script that I initially posted in this thread.

 

Thanks for helping me out

 

 

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