SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

Question

I´m using phpmailer class to send an email.

And when I send the email I get this error: "SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host."

I dont have an email server configured on localhost, now I am in doubt if I´m getting this error because of this reason, because I haven´t an email server configured or if it's because I have something wrong in my code.

Do you know If you do not have a mail server configured this error happens?

Answer 1

Yes, this is exactly what you get, if you use the default host setting of phpmailer, which tries to deliver the mail to localhost. So you probably should set the host property, and depending on this servers configuration properties like user and password.