Language string failed to load: from_failed[from_email_address]

Question

I got this error when trying to send an email using smtp:

Language string failed to load: from_failed**[email protected]**

Here's my code:

$mail = new PHPMailer();
                    //$mail->SetLanguage('en',dirname(__FILE__) . '/phpmailer/language/');
                    $SMTP_Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
                    $SMTP_Port = 465;
                    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';

                    $SMTP_UserName = "[email protected]";
                    $SMTP_Password = "****";
                    $from = "[email protected]";
                    $fromName = "My Name";
                    $to = "[email protected]";

                    $mail->IsSMTP();
                    $mail->Host     = $SMTP_Host;
                    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;


                    $mail->Username = $SMTP_UserName;
                    $mail->Password = $SMTP_Password;

                    $mail->From     = "[email protected]";
                    $mail->FromName = "From Name";
                    $mail->AddAddress("[email protected]");
                    $mail->AddReplyTo($from, $fromName);

                    $mail->IsHTML(true);

                    $mail->Subject  =  "This is an message from our website";
                    $mail->Body     =  $design;

                    if(!$mail->Send())
                    {

                       echo "Error : " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
                       exit;
                    }

How can I fix it?

Answer 1

This usually means your phpMailer class cannot find the language file when it is trying to spit out a message.

Easiest way to fix this is to set the language manually including the path to the language folder:

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->SetLanguage("en", 'includes/phpMailer/language/');

It's in your language folder. Or you can simply point your SetLanguage method to this source:

  1  <?php
   2  /**
   3   * PHPMailer language file.  
   4   * English Version
   5   */
   6  
   7  $PHPMAILER_LANG = array();
   8  
   9  $PHPMAILER_LANG["provide_address"] = 'You must provide at least one ' .
  10                                       'recipient email address.';
  11  $PHPMAILER_LANG["mailer_not_supported"] = ' mailer is not supported.';
  12  $PHPMAILER_LANG["execute"] = 'Could not execute: ';
  13  $PHPMAILER_LANG["instantiate"] = 'Could not instantiate mail function.';
  14  $PHPMAILER_LANG["authenticate"] = 'SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.';
  15  $PHPMAILER_LANG["from_failed"] = 'The following From address failed: ';
  16  $PHPMAILER_LANG["recipients_failed"] = 'SMTP Error: The following ' .
  17                                         'recipients failed: ';
  18  $PHPMAILER_LANG["data_not_accepted"] = 'SMTP Error: Data not accepted.';
  19  $PHPMAILER_LANG["connect_host"] = 'SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.';
  20  $PHPMAILER_LANG["file_access"] = 'Could not access file: ';
  21  $PHPMAILER_LANG["file_open"] = 'File Error: Could not open file: ';
  22  $PHPMAILER_LANG["encoding"] = 'Unknown encoding: ';
  23  ?>

Answer 2

You can use systems internal mail function. In this case, phpMailer could not connecting correctly with SMTP. Better to use the servers 'mail' function to send the mail with phpMailer.

replace

$mail->IsSMTP();

to

$mail->Mailer = "mail";

I hope now your scripts works fine because we are using systems internal 'mail' function with phpMailers features.