[smtp connection failed error in PHP LIST]

No i am doing in live server.

Where to setup smtp connection in the config.php code.

 

[smtp connection failed error in PHP LIST]

Hi,
I couldn’t send campaign in php list.It shows smtp connection failed error. I have done an smtp connection in config.php file still i couldn,t clear the error. How to set smtp in phplist without this error while sending test mail?

It shows error like this 

Sent test mail to: abcd@gmail.com FAILED

please help me how to setup smtp in config.php to send mail and also to clear the error as soon as possible.

my config.php code is

Quote

 

<?php

/*

** ==============================================================================================================*

** The minimum requirements to get phpList working are in this file.*
** If you are interested in tweaking more options, check out the config_extended.php file*
** or visit http://resources.phplist.com/system/config*

** ** NOTE: To use options from config_extended.php, you need to copy them to this file ***

==============================================================================================================

*/

// what is your Mysql database server hostname
$database_host = ‘localhost’;

// what is the name of the database we are using
$database_name = ‘pritdigi_phplistdb’;

// what user has access to this database
$database_user = ‘pritdigi_phplist’;

// and what is the password to login to control the database
$database_password = ‘prince@444’;

// if you have an SMTP server, set it here. Otherwise it will use the normal php mail() function

//# if your SMTP server is called “smtp.mydomain.com” you enter this below like this:
//#
//# define(“PHPMAILERHOST”,‘smtp.mydomain.com’);

define(‘PHPMAILERHOST’, ‘localhost’);
define(‘PHPMAILERPORT’,2500);
define(‘PHPMAILER_SECURE’,false);

// if TEST is set to 1 (not 0) it will not actually send ANY messages, but display what it would have sent
// this is here, to make sure you edited the config file and mails are not sent “accidentally”
// on unmanaged systems

define(‘TEST’, 0);
/*

==============================================================================================================

** Settings for handling bounces*

** This section is OPTIONAL, and not necessary to send out mailings, but it is highly recommended to correctly*
** set up bounce processing. Without processing of bounces your system will end up sending large amounts of*
** unnecessary messages, which overloads your own server, the receiving servers and internet traffic as a whole*

==============================================================================================================

*/

// Message envelope.

// This is the address that most bounces will be delivered to
// Your should make this an address that no PERSON reads
// but a mailbox that phpList can empty every so often, to process the bounces

// $message_envelope = ‘listbounces@yourdomain’;

// Handling bounces. Check README.bounces for more info
// This can be ‘pop’ or ‘mbox’
$bounce_protocol = ‘pop’;

// set this to 0, if you set up a cron to download bounces regularly by using the
// commandline option. If this is 0, users cannot run the page from the web
// frontend. Read README.commandline to find out how to set it up on the
// commandline
define(‘MANUALLY_PROCESS_BOUNCES’, 1);

// when the protocol is pop, specify these three
$bounce_mailbox_host = ‘localhost’;
$bounce_mailbox_user = ‘popuser’;
$bounce_mailbox_password = ‘password’;

// the “port” is the remote port of the connection to retrieve the emails
// the default should be fine but if it doesn’t work, you can try the second
// one. To do that, add a # before the first line and take off the one before the
// second line
$bounce_mailbox_port = ‘110/pop3/notls’;
//$bounce_mailbox_port = “110/pop3”;

// it’s getting more common to have secure connections, in which case you probably want to use
//$bounce_mailbox_port = “995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert”;

// when the protocol is mbox specify this one
// it needs to be a local file in mbox format, accessible to your webserver user
$bounce_mailbox = ‘/var/mail/listbounces’;

// set this to 0 if you want to keep your messages in the mailbox. this is potentially
// a problem, because bounces will be counted multiple times, so only do this if you are
// testing things.
$bounce_mailbox_purge = 1;

// set this to 0 if you want to keep unprocessed messages in the mailbox. Unprocessed
// messages are messages that could not be matched with a user in the system
// messages are still downloaded into phpList, so it is safe to delete them from
// the mailbox and view them in phpList
$bounce_mailbox_purge_unprocessed = 1;

// how many bounces in a row need to have occurred for a user to be marked unconfirmed
$bounce_unsubscribe_threshold = 5;

// choose the hash method for password
// check the extended config for more info
// in most cases, it is fine to leave this as it is
define(‘HASH_ALGO’, ‘sha256’);

 

please help if there is any error in code.

Thanks in advance
keerthi