SMTP Authentication Failure

SMTP Authentication Failure

The Mail::factory PHP Script does not like to play well with some of our servers,
Instruct the client instead to use this one - https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer

When sending emails in cPanel, mailer script must utilize smtp authentication and PHP-Pear module or mails will not go out. To verify if Pear module is installed, login to cpanel > PHP PEAR Packages > show system installed modules.
Then, mailer script can be tailored/modified as per below:

<?php 
require_once "Mail.php"; 
$from = "MyName <name@myemail.com>"; 
$to = "TargetName <name@targetemail.com>"; 
$subject = "Hi!"; 
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?"; 
$host = "mail.mailserver.com"; 
$username = "name@myemail.com"; 
$password = "my_password"; 
$headers = array ('From' => $from, 
'To' => $to, 
'Subject' => $subject); 
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', 
array ('host' => $host, 
'auth' => true, 
'username' => $username, 
'password' => $password)); 
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body); 
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) { 
echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>"); 
} else { 
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>"); 
} 
?>

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