• I installed “WP Mail SMTP” plugin on my site on localhost (wamp), I config everything accordingly with my gmail account and cannot successfully send out the test email. Here is part of the error (the complete error is too long):

    Test Message Sent
    The result was:
    boolean false
    The full debugging output is shown below:
    object(PHPMailer)[330]
    public ‘Version’ => string ‘5.2.7’ (length=5)
    public ‘Priority’ => int 3
    public ‘CharSet’ => string ‘UTF-8’ (length=5)
    public ‘ContentType’ => string ‘text/plain’ (length=10)
    public ‘Encoding’ => string ‘8bit’ (length=4)
    public ‘ErrorInfo’ => string ‘The following From address failed: [email protected] : MAIL FROM command failed,530,5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
    530 5.5.1 https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 ik6sm5510678igb.17 – gsmtp
    ‘ (length=229)
    public ‘From’ => string ‘[email protected]’ (length=20)
    public ‘FromName’ => string ‘FromName (localhost)’ (length=23)
    public ‘Sender’ => string ‘[email protected]’ (length=20)
    public ‘ReturnPath’ => string ” (length=0)
    public ‘Subject’ => string ‘WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to [email protected]’ (length=48)
    public ‘Body’ => string ‘This is a test email generated by the WP Mail SMTP WordPress plugin.’ (length=68)
    public ‘AltBody’ => string ” (length=0)
    public ‘Ical’ => string ” (length=0)
    protected ‘MIMEBody’ => string ‘This is a test email generated by the WP Mail SMTP WordPress plugin.
    ‘ (length=69)
    protected ‘MIMEHeader’ => string ‘Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:53:07 +0000
    Return-Path: <[email protected]>
    To: [email protected]
    From: “fromMyGmail (localhost)” <[email protected]>
    Subject: WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to [email protected]
    Message-ID: <b3677b248694162ff329764a545174c1@localhost>
    X-Priority: 3
    X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.7 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/)
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

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  • Thread Starter mdivk

    (@mdivk)

    To avoid any bot spam to my emails, I obfuscated my email addresses in the original error message.

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