Please help! Cannot send mail!

[ellescuba27]

Hello guys!
(Just going to confirm that there was absolutely nothing about this on status.x10hosting.com, because by the time I had the error, all the issues on the status website were marked "Completed")
OK, so I am sending mail with PHP from my site. I know the code is working because it was working a while ago, but now it doesn't. I am sending from my X10hosting email account, so forged header is off the list. I have not reached the mail limit, so cross that off the list too. In fact, whenever I send mail, I get Error 111. My conclusion would be that X10hosting thinks that I am sending from a forged header when I'm not, since the suggestion they give me on Live Chat was "Don't use forged headers". So I am guessing this is a server error. You see, the same thing happened a couple of weeks ago, and I kept getting Error 111, and then all of the sudden, it worked, and now since about 3 days ago, it doesn't work. So what's going on? Can you fix it?

BTW Happy Holidays!

 

[ellescuba27]

Please give me an actual human message? I just want to know what's going on.

 

[descalzo]

If you could post the code you use (between CODE tags) it might help us find the problem.

 

[ellescuba27]

Thanks very much for the reply (and during the Holidays too)!!
Ok, here it is after being tweaked and tweaked again (blocked out email and password), I'm using PHPMailer:

<?php
require_once("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$error = null;
function smtpmailer($to, $subject, $message, $winerror, $failerror) {
global $error;
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Username = "(blocked)";
$mail->Password = "(blocked)";
$mail->Host = "mail.(blocked)";
$mail->Port = 25;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SetFrom("(blocked)", "The Educator");
$mail->AddAddress($to);
$mail->AddReplyTo("(blocked)", "The Educator");
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
if(!$mail->Send()) {
$error = true;
echo $failerror;
} else {
$error = false;
echo $winerror;
}
}
?>

And I call it from another page like this:

require("themailingscript.php");
smtpmailer($_POST["email"], "The Educator", "This is the message I am sending you", "A message has been sent to $_POST[email].", "This just in, we could not send you a message. Your email was likely verified but the message could not be sent. This is likely a problem with our mail sending system, please come back later and the problem will probably be fixed.");

As well, I later found out I couldn't send mail with a regular email client either, meaning it's a server problem.