SMTP issues — SMTP connect() failed.

Here is the full error when trying the test message:

The SMTP debugging output is shown below:

Invalid address: (cc):

Invalid address: (bcc):

Invalid address: (Reply-To):

2019-10-17 00:35:09 SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111)

SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting

The full debugging output is shown below:

object(arf_PHPMailer)#2020 (73) {
[“Priority”]=>
NULL
[“CharSet”]=>
string(5) “UTF-8”
[“ContentType”]=>
string(21) “multipart/alternative”
[“Encoding”]=>
string(4) “8bit”
[“ErrorInfo”]=>
string(82) “SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting”
[“From”]=>
string(23) “[email protected]”
[“FromName”]=>
string(26) “Southland Physical Therapy”
[“Sender”]=>
string(23) “[email protected]”
[“Subject”]=>
string(16) “SMTP Test E-Mail”
[“Body”]=>
string(639) “Testing
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Hosting is on GoDaddy

Email is on Google

One problem that I have found in researching this problem is that GoDaddy blocks outbound SMTP to ports 25, 465 and 587 to all servers except their own.

The Google email uses 465.