I needed to relay via gmail so I updated phpMailer and config.ini to allow for this. It a trivial change but hopefully this helps someone else. Gmail requires TLS and php mailer has to be told to move into secure mode. I should have made this more generic for any ssl/tls service but for now this works me and maybe you as well.
---config.php---
$cfg['use_gmail'] = 'on';
$cfg['smtp_debug'] = 2;
--lib/lib.mailer.php---
start on line 176 replace your use_smtp block with this one (only a few changes)
if ($use_smtp == 'on') {
$this->IsSMTP();
$this->Hostname = Get::cfg('smtp_host');
$this->Host = Get::cfg('smtp_host');
$smtp_user =Get::cfg('smtp_user');
$use_gmail = Get::cfg('use_gmail');
$smtp_debug = Get::cfg('smtp_debug');
if (!empty($smtp_user)) {
$this->Username = $smtp_user;
$this->Password = Get::cfg('smtp_pwd');
$this->SMTPAuth = true;
} else {^M
$this->SMTPAuth = false;
}^M
if(!empty($use_gmail)){
$this->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$this->Port = 587;
}
if(!empty($smtp_debug)){
$this->SMTPDebug = $smtp_debug;
}
error_log("AUTH:".$this->SMTPAuth);
} else {
$this->IsMail();
}
