Comments on: PHPMailer and smtp on 1and1 shared hosting

By: Simo

Simo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:21:07 +0000

I can’t really tell by the line you sent me.. and even that line has nothing wrong with it really. if you can get to the command line and type:
php -v
that would return the version info of php that 1and1 uses.

Also it might help to replace phpmailer.php with the latest version which you can get from : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/phpmailer/PHPMailer-ML_v1.5.zip?use_mirror=superb-east

Hope this helps..

By: Cameron

Cameron — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:37:15 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply!

public $Priority = 3;

(This is the first line of the class after the declaration: “class PHPMailer { ” )

I saw on another forum that a user received the same (or similar) error, and I looked into a different version. How do I tell which version of PHP 1and1 is running? Can you tell which one I have/should have based on the above info?

By: Cameron

Cameron — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:01:17 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply!

public $Priority = 3;

(This is the first line of the class after the declaration: “class PHPMailer { ” )

By: Simo

Simo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:57:20 +0000

Looks like you have a script error which might be related to a different version of PHP on 1and1 servers..you might just want to upgrade your phpmailer version..can you send me the line at 87 of your phpmailer.php.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:41:00 +0000

I’m actually getting a different error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /homepages/13/d191942467/htdocs/includes/classes/phpmailer.php on line 87

I am using the exact same script on many other sites that are not hosted with 1and1 and I’m thinking my host is the problem. I don’t know much about phpMailer, but I don’t have a $mail->isSmtp() or mail(). I’m only using phpMailer as a contact form, so it’s only trying to send one e-mail, which is supposed to come to me.

Any help would be much appreciated.

By: Sebastien G.

Sebastien G. — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:48:56 +0000

Wow… just tried the isSendEmail thing… and it worked… after freaking like 4 hours of researches…

thks a LOT !

By: Eduardo Bortoluzzi

Eduardo Bortoluzzi — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:15:54 +0000

Thank you very much for sharing the info, i just changed to isSendMail() and it works now, i was proper pissed off with that, waited till the last piece of pacience to change it to isSendMail… but there you go, try it if youre having problems with 1&1! they only had info about mail() and not phpmailer!

Cheers

By: mike

mike — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:15:23 +0000

hey thanks for the solution — this worked like a charm on 1and1. we moved a site from a local server that kept crashing to 1and1 and this was the only script that kept failing.

By: David

David — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:41:54 +0000

Thank you! You are a savior!

By: graz

graz — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:23:04 +0000

HI guys, thank you for this thread, that has been quite useful. I am actually using the 1and1 SMTP server as a relay: a PHP app connects to the 1and1 SMTP server to send e-mails to a set of subscribers. I had some initial problems but eventually everything seems to be ok (this scenario, however, is a bit different than the scenario you describe as my “client” is not hosted by 1and1 yet). As you say, 1and1 probably closed its outgoing smtp ports on its shared hosting servers. However, the following properties setting may be of help:
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Host = “auth.smtp.1and1.co.uk”;
$mail->Port = 25; // set the SMTP port
// do not set $mail->SMTPSecure !
-of course-
you will need to assign $mail->Username and $mail->Password

With this configuration I could consume the SMTP server of 1and1 (uk based, at least).
Last: I have seen that you are using the IP address instead of a hostname – the different behaviour, likely, is not because PHPmailer but it should be due to the overhead in looking up – overhead that you avoid when using the IP address.

Thank you for your post
Regards
daniel