Swift Mailer Error

Question

Hi, Im using the following code to send a message:

try
{   
    require_once "lib/Swift.php";
    require_once "lib/Swift/Connection/SMTP.php";
    $smtp =& new Swift_Connection_SMTP("mail.somedomain.net", 587);
    $smtp->setUsername("username");
    $smtp->setpassword("password");
    $swift =& new Swift($smtp);

    //Create the sender from the details we've been given
    $sender =& new Swift_Address($email, $name);
    $message =& new Swift_Message("message title");

    $message->attach(new Swift_Message_Part("Hello"));

    //Try sending the email
    $sent = $swift->send($message, "$myEmail", $sender);
    //Disconnect from SMTP, we're done
    $swift->disconnect();

    if($sent)
    {
        print 'sent';

    }
    else 
    {
        print 'not sent';
    }

}

catch (Exception $e) 
{
    echo"$e";
}

The issue is that it is working fine on my local server (which my xampp server) but not working when the file is uploaded on the real server.

It throwing this error:

'The SMTP connection failed to start [mail.somedomain.net:587]: fsockopen returned Error Number 110 and Error String 'Connection timed out''

Please what should I do to correct this error. Thanks for reading

Answer 1

Make sure that the smtp server domain is valid. Trying pinging it to confirm a response. You may also try trace route to see if any of the switches are returning slow responses.

Answer 2

Check your hostname.

"Connection timed out" could mean quite a few things, but it's most likely to be the wrong port or a firewall is blocking the port.

Update

Since your host has told you not to use SMTP then I guess you have no choice to be honest.

It should be straightforward changing your php class to use sendmail. If you get the latest version of swift mailer library and follow this example then you should be done in no time.

Are you only using this library to send simple emails like the above? Maybe the simpler alternative of PHP's mail function will suffice? See the example on that page.

Answer 3

$smtp =& new Swift_Connection_SMTP("mail.somedomain.net", 587);

is that '587' the port number to connect to? Any reason you're trying that instead of the normal port 25? Port 587 (submission) is normally used for local users to send mail. Once you're running this script on your remote web server, it's no longer "local", and is most likely firewalled off (or the mail server's not listening to that port on external interfaces).

Try switching to port 25 and see if that helps any.

update:

Connection refused is better than "connection timed out". It means at least that the initial data packet got somewhere and was actively refused. Timed out means things just got dropped silently somewhere en-route.

max_execution_time would only come into play if the php script itself went over the max time. If that was the case, you wouldn't be getting a swiftmailer error, because the script would have simply terminated.

Is your webserver running sendmail? Change the connection host to 'localhost' and see if that helps. If you just want to send an email, then that should work. The only reason you might want to connect to a remote SMTP server is for the From: headers to be correctly set and not be possibly flagged as SPAM on the receving end.