PHPMailer GoDaddy Server SMTP Connection Refused

I'm on GoDaddy on a Linux like @surfbird0713. On my 32nd attempt, the following worked for me as well:

$mail2->Host = localhost;//$mail2->SMTPAuth = false;//$mail2->Username = 'xxxx@xxxxxx.com';//$mail2->Password = '*******';//$mail2->SMTPSecure = 'tls';//$mail2->Port = 465;

I was previously trying with the username, login, port, etc. When I commented out all those, and just went with localhost it worked.

As it seems this is a continuing problem, let me add my own experience.

Our website uses PHPMailer and the site is hosted on a GoDaddy linux server. The settings that seemed to be correct (according to everything I could find on SO and the goDaddy support site) were as follows:

SMTP_SERVER: smtpout.secureserver.net (or alternatively relay-hosting.secureserver.net)SMTP_PORT: 465 //or 3535 or 80 or 25SMTP_AUTH: true //alwaysSMTP_Secure: 'ssl' //only if using port 465

After spending 6+ hours trying every variation of ports(25, 3535, 4655), servers relay-hosting.secureserver.net,smtpout.secureserver.net:[port], etc.), usernames, passwords,etc. I called goDaddy. Another 40 minutes later, it was revealed that:

1) the "workspace" email accounts are being retired. That's important because if you have an email account with goDaddy today, you likely have a Workspace account. This is, according to the tech support rep, hosted separately from you linux account.

2) goDaddy is moving toward cPanel email accounts. Hurray! Time table? "...in the next 2 to 3 years!"

3) I moved our accounts from Workspace to cPanel accounts while I was on the phone with the rep. Really easy to do.

4) After you change your email accounts (including editing your MX records) to a cPanel email (vs. a "workspace" email) the appropriate settings for a web-form email using PHPMailer are:

SMTP_SERVER: localhost   //(and I mean literally: "localhost"- in place of smtp.secureserver.net and relay-hosting.secureserver.net, etc.)

... and everything else (as above) the same...

The webform I built with PHPMailer worked perfectly after this change!

Use your cPaneL email account login (username) and password in the PHPMailer setup and your web emails will work seamlessly!

An added bonus is that webmail (does anybody use this anymore?) can be accessed at [yourdoman]\webmail. No more cryptic url's to remember! And the accounts cand be IMAP or POP!

Admittedly, this means you must use goDaddy's cPanel email accounts, but getting the webform to work flawslessly with PHPMailer was the real reward!

After a lot of frustration, this also worked for me.

include("includes/class.phpmailer.php");date_default_timezone_set('UTC');define('SMTP_HOST','relay-hosting.secureserver.net');define('SMTP_PORT',25);**define('SMTP_USERNAME','me@aravindnc.com');define('SMTP_PASSWORD','me123');define('SMTP_AUTH',false);$email = 'aravind_n_c@yahoo.co.in';$firstName = 'Aravind';$mail = new PHPMailerR();$mail->IsSMTP();$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;                 $mail->SMTPAuth = SMTP_AUTH;                $mail->Host = SMTP_HOST;$mail->Port = 25;$mail->Username = SMTP_USERNAME;$mail->Password = SMTP_PASSWORD;$mail->SetFrom(SMTP_USERNAME,'AravindNC.IN');$mail->AddReplyTo(SMTP_USERNAME,"AravindNC.IN");$mail->Subject = "Welcome to AravindNC.IN";$mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!";$mail->MsgHTML('This is a test.');$mail->AddAddress($email, 'Aravind NC');$mail->Send();?>