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PHP Building Websites with PHP Contact Form & Sending Email Sending Our Email

Aleksandr Antropov
Aleksandr Antropov
6,458 Points
Posted by Aleksandr Antropov
Aleksandr Antropov
6,458 Points

How to send an email via SMTP (Google) with Swiftmailer on localhost (WAMP)

If you are running a project on a localhost (in my case - WAMP) you are going to have issues with sending an email. I encountered this error: Connection could not be established with host smtp.gmail.com [ #0]

The source of an error is unknown to me. However there is a workaround:

  1. Go to \vendor\swiftmailer\swiftmailer\lib\classes\Swift\Transport;
  2. Open 'StreamBuffer.php';
  3. Go to line 266 and paste the following code before '$streamContext' assignment: $options['ssl']['verify_peer'] = FALSE; $options['ssl']['verify_peer_name'] = FALSE;

This will allow us to send emails within our testing environment.