"From address failed:[email protected]" error when sending email by phpMailer

Question

I tried to send an email using php

I managed smtp as "smtp.gmail.com"

After this setting I get no further, receiving the foloowing SMTP error

From address failed:[email protected]

I put

$mail->SetFrom("[email protected]");

but still failing... I tried to change php.ini but it wasn't possible

I saved php.ini after changing (sendmail_path ) in the public location but no result

Answer 1

Try this instead:

$mail             = new PHPMailer();

$body             = "<h1>hello, world!</h1>"

$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP

$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";                 // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";      // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port       = 587;                   // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username   = "[email protected]";  // GMAIL username
$mail->Password   = "yourpassword";            // GMAIL password

$mail->SetFrom('[email protected]', 'First Last');

$mail->AddReplyTo("[email protected]","First Last");

$mail->Subject    = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp (Gmail), basic";

$mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test

$mail->MsgHTML($body);

$address = "[email protected]";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe");

if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
  echo "Message sent!";
}

I think Google doesn't let you use their domain without meeting some conditions, but I think this will work. Code extracted from here: http://phpmailer.worxware.com/?pg=examplebgmail

EDIT
I used the following code exactly and it worked. (I had some trouble with two step authentication but I fixed it. You can use your regular password without worry. If you too have two step authentication enabled you should put there a one time password generated for your e-mail address)

<?php
    require("libphp-phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");

    $mail = new PHPMailer();
    $mail->IsSMTP();
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
    $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
    $mail->Port = 587;
    $mail->Username = "[email protected]";
    $mail->Password = "myOneTimePasswordBecauseOfTwoStepAuth";
    $mail->setFrom("[email protected]");
    $mail->AddAddress("[email protected]");
    $mail->Subject = "trial";
    $mail->Body = "<h1>hello, world!</h1>";

    if ($mail->Send() == false)
    {
        die($mail->ErrInfo);
    }
    else
    {
        echo "It worked!\n";
    }
?>