Timeout when sending message via SMTP using PHPMailer?

Question

PHP

There is a code:

$mail = new PHPMailer;
    $mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';

// Настройки SMTP
    $mail->isSMTP();
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 3;

    $mail->Host = 'smtp.yandex.com';
    $mail->Port = 465;
    $mail->Username = '***@yandex.ru';
    $mail->Password = '***';



// От кого
    $mail->setFrom('***[email protected]', 'Snipp.ru');

// Кому
    $mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Иван Петров');

// Тема письма
    $mail->Subject = "Тема";

// Тело письма
    $body = '<p><strong>«Hello, world!» </strong></p>';
    $mail->msgHTML($body);

    //send the message, check for errors
    if (!$mail->send()) {
        echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
    } else {
        echo 'Message sent!';
    }

I turn to AJAX, as a result, after 3 minutes of waiting, the script execution time simply ends, in the console:

<br>2019-08-07 07:44:09 Connection: opening to smtp.yandex.com:465, timeout=300, options=array()<br>
2019-08-07 07:44:09 Connection: opened<br>
<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>:  Maximum execution time of 180 seconds exceeded in <b>D:\OSPanel\domains\blockchain.mcdir.local\vendor\phpmailer\phpmailer\src\SMTP.php</b> on line <b>1125</b><br />

I tried from my computer, from hosting, with the mail.ru SMTP server, the ping goes to the SMTP server. What else could be the problem? I've already broken my head.

Answer 1

Try setting up a secure connection:
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';