SMTP Connect() failed. Message was not sent.Mailer error: SMTP Connect() failed

Question

Am trying to send mail to a gmail address but it keeps on getting this error "SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection timed out (110)SMTP Connect() failed. Message was not sent.Mailer error: SMTP Connect() failed." What could be the problem?

        require 'class.phpmailer.php'; // path to the PHPMailer class         require 'class.smtp.php';              $mail = new PHPMailer();               $mail->IsSMTP();  // telling the class to use SMTP             $mail->SMTPDebug = 2;             $mail->Mailer = "smtp";             $mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";             $mail->Port = 587;             $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication             $mail->Username = "[email protected]"; // SMTP username             $mail->Password = "mypasswword"; // SMTP password              $Mail->Priority = 1;              $mail->AddAddress("[email protected]","Name");             $mail->SetFrom($visitor_email, $name);             $mail->AddReplyTo($visitor_email,$name);              $mail->Subject  = "Message from  Contact form";             $mail->Body     = $user_message;             $mail->WordWrap = 50;                if(!$mail->Send()) {             echo 'Message was not sent.';             echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;             } else {             echo 'Message has been sent.';             } 

Answer 1

Remove or comment out the line-

$mail->IsSMTP(); 

And it will work for you.

I have checked and experimented many answers from different sites but haven't got any solution except the above solution.