Comments on: PHPMailer "The following From address failed:" problem and solution

By: Kaspar

Kaspar — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:21:18 +0000

Hey man!

Thanks a lot! I had been struggling with phpmailer for a crappy job for like 4houres till i finally found your post and tried SwiftMailer. Much better one, and easy to use too!

Thanks for sharing this info!

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:02:31 +0000

Worked several hours with PHPMailer, never got it to work. Found this blog and tried Swift mailer. Worked right out of the block. The docs were very easy to understand, and Swift was easy to test on my home server, and easy to upload/install on the professional web server. Thanks!

By: martin

martin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:50:36 +0000

i also had a problem with EHLO error with my server.applying suggestion from john daniels really works!
thanx alot man.

By: John Daniels

John Daniels — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:30:26 +0000

Here is a fix I applied succesfully when I ran into the problem of 554 Invalid HELO format with PHPMailer: In class.smtp.php search for the function Hello Replace: SendHello("EHLO", $host)) with SendHello("EHLO", "[" . $host . "]")) Replace: SendHello("HELO", $host)) with SendHello("HELO", "[" . $host . "]"))

By: J S

J S — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:20:13 +0000

Looks like they closed your bug fix request… without fixing it :/ I\'m going to try Swiftmailer

By: Ardee Aram

Ardee Aram — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:57:48 +0000

Wonderful. Just ditched PHPMailer and used Swiftmailer. Mailing now works perfectly well.

Thank you very much for this post! I\'ll do a backlink if it\'s ok with you to spread the word :)

By: Terri Ann

Terri Ann — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:44:12 +0000

I was getting this error -- but it turns out it was because I was forcing a specific port -- SMTP was authenticating but the from address failed. I just removed the port assignment.

By: Hernanc

Hernanc — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:13:58 +0000

Hi there,
I had a similar problem. I was getting this error:
ERROR: MAIL not accepted from server: 550 Access denied -- Invalid HELO name (See RFC2821 4.1.1.1)

Some time later I realized that I was querying my local server using only the host name:
http://simplehostname/file.php

When I used the full dns it worked perfectly:
http://simplehostname.mydomainname.com/file.php

Cheers!

By: Manuel Conde

Manuel Conde — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:28:57 +0000

Thanks very very much for your contribution.

I was searching in google for 2 days for this solution with no a real solution from no one.

With http://www.swiftmailer.org/ I finally can send emails with SMTP auth without problems (where PHPMailer didn\'t do).

Swiftmailer is a great tool. Congratulations to the creators.