Question I want to send email direct from my website to clients what do I need to do?

[Abaviawe]

I'm trying to send emails from my website to clients with PHPmailer and it requires host, port, username and password please someone should help, where do I get these requirements from so that I will be able to send my email.

 

[Peter Debik]

host: localhost or 127.0.0.1 or the public IP or the public hostname of your machine
port: 25
username: any mailbox (email address) on your server
password: the password of that mailbox

 

[Abaviawe]

It's not still working, this is the code

ob_start();
include('form.php');
$message= ob_get_contents();
ob_get_clean();

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;

require '../src/Exception.php';
require '../src/PHPMailer.php';
require '../src/SMTP.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth=true;
$mail-> Host= "127.0.0.1";
$mail->SMTPAuth="true";
$mail->SMTPSecure = "PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS";
$mail->Post = "25";
$mail->Username = "[email protected]";
$mail ->Password ="******";
$mail->addAddress($recipientEmail);
$mail->contentType = "text/css";
$mail ->Charset ="utf-8";
  $mail->WordWrap=50;
  $mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail-> Subject ="Your order has been comfirmed";
$mail->MsgHTML($message);
$mail->Send();

 

[Abaviawe]

But if I use external SMTP server like Gmail it works.

 

[Peter Debik]

And what is logged as an error when you try to connect to SMTP through these settings?

 

[Abaviawe]

And what is logged as an error when you try to connect to SMTP through these settings?

SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Failed to connect to server

 

[Peter Debik]

You can try the public hostname of your server instead.