Opencart 3.0 mail is giving trouble when phpmailer used

Guys, newbie here... using several modules and extensions. Significants are below:

1. pdfInvoicePro

• phone-and-email-verified-account-version-2.0.1

• proemailtemplatev1.8.3

and standard OC mail and webkul's hotel reservation module.
Everything is fine, when using phpmailer and I'm fully happy with it. But my mail server is not properly supporting TLS. It advertises and then for some unknown reason (probably certificate issue) it does not work properly. I can not turn off that TLS in my mail server. So all I can do is i can "skip" that opportunistic TLS in phpmailer. Now question is, how??????

Surely your web host should resolve your certificate issue.

no way... coz that's a private server too... managed by us... but we are unable to resolve the certificate issue for now.

Tell me where I'm wrong... it is done in admin/controller/marketing/contact.php and still it's the same TLS error...

aq_mishu wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 08, 2019 1:08 am

it is done in admin/controller/marketing/contact.php and still it's the same TLS error...

And we all should somehow guess which "same TLS error" you're talking about, right?

not at all... here is the thing:
I have a mail server that advertise about TLS. (Please dont ask me to solve the mail server issue as that's not possible at this very moment).
It allows client (opencart) to conenct to port 25, and opencart says STARTTLS. After that, server just drops the connection. I tried with same server setup (in a different machine with same config, say clone) for mail and just disabling TLS and that worked like charm. So it's the same old "oppurtunistic TLS" of phpmailer i believe... and hence looking for a solution.

Looks like there's a time to hire a server admin, not ask for support on forums, where mostly coders are present. This is considering your previous reply regarding the server managed by yourself.

what is your smtp hostname?

First of all, dafinitely there is a reason for which i can not work on the mail server... i know i can get some certificates and can resolve it... but not this time as there are complexity on my end in this certificate topic.

Ok, so that's a good question, SMTP hostname... it's given perfectly... mail.mydomain.com

are you sure you are using the PHPMailer class and not the default Mail class with smtp sub class?
those do not have variables like:

$mail->SMTPSecure = false;
$mail->SMTPAutoTLS = false;

aq_mishu wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 08, 2019 1:08 am

Tell me where I'm wrong...

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foreach ($emails as $email) {
						if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
							$mail = new Mail($this->config->get('config_mail_engine'));
							$mail->parameter = $this->config->get('config_mail_parameter');
							$mail->smtp_hostname = $this->config->get('config_mail_smtp_hostname');
							$mail->smtp_username = $this->config->get('config_mail_smtp_username');
							$mail->smtp_password = html_entity_decode($this->config->get('config_mail_smtp_password'), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
							$mail->smtp_port = $this->config->get('config_mail_smtp_port');
							$mail->smtp_timeout = $this->config->get('config_mail_smtp_timeout');

							$mail->setTo($email);
							$mail->setFrom($store_email);
							$mail->setSender(html_entity_decode($store_name, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
							$mail->setSubject(html_entity_decode($this->request->post['subject'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
							$mail->setHtml($message);

							[b]$mail->SMTPSecure = false;
							$mail->SMTPAutoTLS = false;[/b]

							$mail->send();
						}
					}

it is done in admin/controller/marketing/contact.php and still it's the same TLS error...

But yes! your point is legit... I'm using SMTP...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1t37cB ... 8c0KqApBqd is the screenshot. However, I have installed phpmailer too, from pdf-invoice-pro module

yes, default OC mail class also supports smtp via a separate class but not the SMTPSecure nor SMTPAutoTLS switches.
you may have installed PHPMailer but are you actually using it?

this: does not look like PHPMailer class initiation, it looks like default OC mail class initiation.

maybe add: and make sure.

thekrotek wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 08, 2019 5:16 am

Looks like there's a time to hire a server admin, not ask for support on forums, where mostly coders are present. This is considering your previous reply regarding the server managed by yourself.

I agree - if you are not an experienced Linux Sysadmin DO NOT use hosting that is not fully managed.