Answered not able to send emails

hi .. i have checked the system settings thoroughly and still not able to fire emails from modx to users email accounts in order to get them registered and active members..
settings that i configured are as follows :-


smtp hosts : smtp.gmail.com
smtp password : ************
smtp port : 587
smtp user : [email protected]
use smtp : yes

i am using modx's extra login to fire emails.. the default chunk name is lgnActivateEmailTpl. haven't made any changes to that either.. can't really say what i am doing wrong ?

PS :- i have even checked bobsguides.com link for sending mails by modphpmailer. When i run the snippet to send a single mail to myself, i see "Mail not sent" message.

the following is the errors i get while sending mail to myself using quickemail..


Mailer error info: SMTP connect() failed.
Server Debug Information:

2015-01-09 18:15:47 SERVER -> CLIENT:
2015-01-09 18:15:47 CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO sainispark.com
2015-01-09 18:15:47 SERVER -> CLIENT:
2015-01-09 18:15:47 SMTP ERROR: EHLO command failed:
2015-01-09 18:15:47 SMTP NOTICE: EOF caught while checking if connected
SMTP connect() failed.

Can you tell us more about your hosting environment?

You don't list the SMTP prefix System Setting. For Gmail, I think it should be TLS for port 587 and SSL for port 465. though tls/465 has worked for me as well.

If that's not the problem, the host may not like the email address you're sending from. [ed. note: BobRay last edited this post 11 years, 8 months ago.]

I have hosted my site on godaddy server. I did try live mail, gmail and yahoo.com email addresses as my primary addresses but none of them seems to work.. Should i get in touch with godaddy help desk ?
Bob, i just couldn't believe that i got a reply from you. Your book i got all the way from your country shipped to mine. Its one of the best resources on modx for sure.. Thanks so much for the reply !!