I had configured a form to use PHPMailer (http://www.webhostinghub.com/support/email/send-email-from-a-page/using-phpmailer-to-send-mail) with some minor changes to use SSL SMTP authentication with gmail. It worked two days ago and then yesterday it just stopped working. Are there any known problems that have arisen within the last few days?

The reported error from PHP is:
SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection timed out (110)
The following From address failed: xxxxx@xxxxx.com : Called Mail() without being connected Message was not sent.Mailer error: The following From address failed: xxxx@xxxxx.com : Called Mail() without being connected

It looks like it is never able to establish a connect with smtp.gmail.com.

I've followed the guide inside the PHPMailer folder for gmail examples, but here is a code snippet.

require("PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php");
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; //also tried ip address
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->Username = "xxxx@xxxxx.com";
$mail->Password = "xxxxxxxxxxxx";
$mail->From = "xxxx@xxxxx.com";
$mail->FromName = "Administrator";
$mail->Subject = "A New Form Request";
$mail->AddAddress("yyyyy@yyyyy.org","$firstname" . "$lastname" );
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->WordWrap = 70;

if (!$mail->Send())
{
echo 'Message was not sent.';
echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}else {
echo "Message has been sent";
}

Thanks to anyone who can help.