I built image based off php:5.6-apache, downloaded to it latest release of q2a and couple plugins. PHPMailer using SMTP was however failing with
SMTP connect() failed.
I am not really PHP developer and likely there is some dependency missing BUT I was able to fix the problem by adding following 2 lines to qa-include/app/emails.php
function qa_send_email($params)
if (qa_opt('smtp_active')) {
if (qa_opt('smtp_secure')) {
} else {
$mailer->SMTPAuth = false;
$mailer->SMTPAutoTLS = false;
If there is other fix for this please let me know, I had to hack my container so redeploy will break it again before it is changed in official code :)
Appears that this is related to this section of PHPMailer Troubleshooting guide. Perhaps Q2A should provide ability to configure this from the admin site.
