Problem with SMTP authentication in PHP using PHPMailer, with Pear Mail works

Question

I´m having trouble sending a e-mail with the PHPMailer class, but it works with PEAR Mail::factory.

I guess the problem is with the SMTP authentication, but I couldn´t f

Answer 1

This happened to me as well. For me, Postfix was located at the same server as the PHP script, and the error was happening when I would be using SMTP authentication and smtp.domain.com instead of localhost.

So when I commented out these lines:

$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";

and set the host to

$mail->Host = "localhost";

instead

$mail->Host = 'smtp.mydomainiuse.com'

and it worked :)