test email, result bool(true)

Chloe, what site is your blog at. Who is your email provider?

https://www.estabursary.org.uk

and my email provider is hotmail. Microsoft.

I tried Hotmail myself, using these parameters:

host: smtp.live.com
port: 587
encryption: tls
with my username and password

and i saw:

bool(false)
..
string(35) “SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.”
.. and then all the way at the bottom
ERROR: Password command failed: 535 5.0.0 Authentication Failed

is this what you saw?

Hi,

I am actually Using the PHP mail() function to send emails.

does this mean I don’t need to add in those extra details?

I only need this plugin to allow my contact form to send me an email notification once someone has completed it.

link to form: https://www.estabursary.org.uk/apply-for-a-bursary/joan-dickson-chamber-music-fund-application/

Thanks again,

Chloe, you’ll need to use SMTP, not PHP Mail to send Hotmail. If the recipient and sender both happen to be Hotmail addresses, Hotmail will mark your mail as spam.

Use the settings I posted above to configure SMTP for Hotmail. You’ll need to enter your Hotmail username and password. Then sending with WP Mail SMTP should work.

If it doesn’t, try this, it uses OAuth 2.0 instead of passwords.

Hi guys,

Jason, I am using the same parameters you posted above and I am getting:

The result was:
bool(false)
The full debugging output is shown below:
object(PHPMailer)#1207 (69) {
(all the other stuff) and at the end I see:

SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111)

I do see this
“
[“MIMEHeader”:protected]=>
string(459) “Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:29:12 +0000
Return-Path:
To: [email protected]
From: ArteGennaro
Subject: WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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

“
but don’t know where to change it…

Cynthia, you can’t send a message composed from a Gmail address with the Hotmail server. It will refuse the connection.

Your settings should be

Host: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 465
Encryption: SSL