PHPMailer does not work with LocalWP

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Issue Summary

I can not send emails anymore, after switching from XAMPP (Windows) to LocalWP (macOS arm64).

I have been using XAMPP for years now and did the following:

• Installed PHPMailer via Composer

• Configured PHPMailer with the following settings

  function configure_smtp(PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer $phpmailer)
  {
  $phpmailer->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER; // Enable verbose debug output
  $phpmailer->Debugoutput = function($str, $level) {echo “debug level $level; message: $str”;};
  $phpmailer->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
  $phpmailer->Host = ‘HOSTNAME’; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
  $phpmailer->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
  $phpmailer->Username = ‘USERNAME’; // SMTP username
  $phpmailer->Password = ‘PASSWORD’; // SMTP password
  $phpmailer->SMTPSecure = ‘tls’; // Enable TLS encryption, ssl also accepted
  $phpmailer->Port = 587; // TCP port to connect to
  $phpmailer->CharSet = ‘UTF-8’;
  $phpmailer->setFrom(“info@mymail.com”, ‘My Name’);
  $phpmailer->addReplyTo(“info@mymail.com”, ‘My Name’);
  }

Troubleshooting Questions

• Does this happen for all sites in Local, or just one in particular?
  All sites

• Are you able to create a new, plain WordPress site in Local and access it in a Browser?
  Yes

Replication

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System Details

• Which version of Local is being used?

• What Operating System (OS) and OS version is being used?

  • For example: macOS Catalina or Windows 10 Professional

macOS 12.2.1 M1 CPU

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  • Retrieving Local’s Log

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