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Hi,

I have a problem after upgrading from 3.0.6 to 3.0.12 a few weeks ago: Yesterday I noticed that I cannot send mails any more.

After each attempt to send a test-mail I get the info that sending was unsuccessful and the log entry states „SMTP connect() failed“

First I thought it would be a problem with my mail configuration but when I went back to Version 3.0.6 it was still working with the same configuration. So I tried different versions of phplist (I always used the config.php of my working 3.0.6 configuration):

Everything is working fine until version 3.0.8, the problems start with 3.0.9 up to 3.0.12. All other conditions stay the same (php 5.3, mysql 5.5.42, no server configuration changed on my VM SLES 11 SP3). Does anybody have an idea about that?

I would not care to stay a 3.0.8 if necessary, but unfortunatelly I upgraded the database structure to the 3.0.12 version - is it possible to revert this manually?

Thanks for your help,

Treb

I cannot see anything that mght be the cause of this problem in the change log for release 3.0.9 https://mantis.phplist.com/changelog_page.php?version_id=100.

But it might be caused by either the From address of the message or the bounce address ($message_envelope in config.php) that you are using. Are they on the same domain as phplist is installed?

Thanks for your answer!

We use an external mail server for sending our emails so the domain names are in fact different. But I tried it with a mail server that has at least the same root domain, but noting changes, still a smtp connect error.

I am at a loss about that problem. Any other ideas? Can I get more debug info from the system? There are no messages in my system log.

See this post for how to enable debug for phpmailer, https://forums.phplist.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=39383&hilit=+debug#p96603. The line that is referenced is now 747 in phplist release 3.0.12.

OK, I compared the source code and found a major difference between 3.0.8 and 3.0.9: A new PHPMailer was integrated, which jumped from 5.2.4 to 5.2.9. The code changes are massive between those two versions. This seems to be the reason for the different behaviour.

The debug mode is most helpful:

I already get an error in 3.0.8:

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SMTP -> ERROR: AUTH not accepted from server: 503 5.5.1 Error: authentication not enabled

But the mail is being sent anyway

In 3.0.9 I get with the same configuration:

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SMTP ERROR: AUTH command failed: 503 5.5.1 Error: authentication not enabled
CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT
SERVER -> CLIENT: 221 2.0.0 Bye
SMTP connect() failed.

Ok, so It seems as if I have a authentification problem that was ignored before.

Until now everything worked fine in 3.0.8 with

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define('PHPMAILERPORT',25);

and no PHPMAILER_SECURE defined

My emailprovider supports TLS on Port 587. So I changed the config.php to

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define('PHPMAILERPORT',587);
define("PHPMAILER_SECURE",'tls');

But Debug says:

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CLIENT -> SERVER: STARTTLS
SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT
SERVER -> CLIENT: SMTP ERROR: QUIT command failed:
SMTP connect() failed

Why does the client (phplist) tell the server to quit? Did I miss something important in the configs?

This isn't an area that I know anything about. But if you change the debug level to 4 then there should be more detailed debug output.

Thanks for your help! I found the solution based on the debug information:

I had to install the openssl-extension for php, now it works perfectly

To put the thread into a nutshell for future readers:

If your TLS authentication does not work check if your openssl extension has been loaded:

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grep -Hrv ";" /etc/php5 | grep -i "extension="

Maybe it should be considered to allow the activation of the debug settings with the phplist UI?