PHP to connect to Hotmail to send email?

Question

currently I am trying to use PHPmailer to send email out. Here are the codes below

<?php     
require("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");   
$mail = new PHPMailer();   // ---------- adjust these lines ---------------------------    ------------   
$mail->Username = "(username@hotmail.com)"; // your hotmail user name    
  $mail->Password = "password";
  $mail->AddAddress"(username@hotmail.com)"; // recipients email     
  $mail->FromName = "test"; // readable name     
  $mail->Subject = "Subject title";     
  $mail->Body    = "Here is the message you want to send to your friend.";     
  //-----------------------------------------------------------------------     
  $mail->Host = "smtp.live.com"; // GMail     
  $mail->Port = 25;     $mail->IsSMTP(); // use SMTP  
  $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication 
  $mail->From = $mail->Username;  
  if(!$mail->Send())     
      echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;     
  else       
      echo "Message has been sent";     

  ?> 

I've tried SSL, port 587 for smtp.live.com with PHPMailer, why doesn't it work?

The error is "SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host."

I cannot telnet smtp.live.com 25,587. smtp.gmail.com etc etc.. What should i do? :(

Answer 1

<?php

//error_reporting(E_ALL);
error_reporting(E_STRICT);

date_default_timezone_set('America/Toronto');

require_once('../class.phpmailer.php');
//include("class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded

$mail             = new PHPMailer();

$body             = file_get_contents('contents.html');
$body             = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);

$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPDebug  = 2;                      // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
                                            // 1 = errors and messages
                                            // 2 = messages only
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                   // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";                  // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host       = "smtp.live.com";        // sets hotmil as the SMTP server
$mail->Port       = 587;                    // set the SMTP port for the hotmail server
$mail->Username   = "useyourownemail@hotmail.com";      // hotmail username
$mail->Password   = "useyourownpassword";           // hotmail password
$mail->SetFrom('yourname@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddReplyTo("name@yourdomain.com","First Last");
$mail->Subject    = "PHPMailer Test Subject via smtp (hotmail), basic";
$mail->AltBody    = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test
$mail->MsgHTML($body);

$address = "anemail@domain.com";
$mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe");

$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif");      // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer_mini.gif"); // attachment

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

?>

Answer 2

Talha answer is works for me. Try to comment $mail->IsSMTP(); and I also commented this part $mail->Port = 587;

Answer 3

port 587 worked for me.

no need to run IsSMTP(). Comment it out as it will throw exceptions.

Dont forget to mark it as answer if it solves your problem :)