I inherited a Xoops 2.3.1 site and I have now just upgraded to 2.5.6. I have also moved the email to a Windows Live domain so I am trying to setup SMTPAuth settings now.

I have SMTPAuth selected with the host as smtp.live.com:587 (also tried port 25 as well). When I try and email a user as a test, I get the following error:

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From what I have Googled SMTP with Gmail and/or other SMTP should work with Xoops 2.5.x.

There is only a custom module and the System module for this site. I also checked that my server host is NOT blocking any SMTP ports.

Anyone have a suggestion to get this working?

Their mail server is probably enforcing TLS (encrypted) connections for SMTPauth and your XOOPS phpmailer client is not set up out of the box to set up a TLS connection. This is to protect the SMTP authentication process from third party prying eyes.

The class.smtp.php file used by XOOPS has the following code



So it looks like it is set up to attempt a TLS connection, so why it is not I am not quite sure. TLS typically uses port 25 instead of 465.