phpmail gmail Could not connect to SMTP - smtp

Question

Tried using the code below which has been working for years until last week. Some change on Gmail side perhaps. But its just not working even if various combinations are tried.
Allow unsafe apps is ON still unable to connect SMTP
<?php
sendMail("tosomeid#gmail.com", "fromsomeid#gmail.com", "test", "test msg<br>hello!");
function sendMail($to, $from, $subject, $message) {
try {
//$to='tosomeid#gmail.com';
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From:' . $from . ' <fromsomeid#gmail.com>' . "\r\n";
ini_set("sendmail_from", "fromsomeid#gmail.com");
require_once("class.phpmailer.php");
require_once("class.smtp.php");
set_time_limit(240);
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$mail->SMTPAutoTLS = false;
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPDebug = 4;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Port = 587; // or 587 // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "fromsomeid#gmail.com"; // SMTP account username
$mail->Password = "password123"; // SMTP account password
$mail->From = "fromsomeid#gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->AddAddress("tosomeid#gmail.com");
$mail->SetFrom('fromsomeid#gmail.com', $from);
$mail->AddReplyTo("fromsomeid#gmail.com", $from);
$mail->AddBCC("tosomeid#gmail.com");
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->WordWrap = 50;
echo 'sendMail to=>' . $to;
if (!$mail->Send()) {
echo 'Message was not sent.';
echo 'Mailer error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo '<br>Message was sent successfully to selected recipients.';
}
} catch (Exception $ex) {
echo'EXCEPTION <br>';
echo '<br>Caught exception: ' . $ex->getMessage() . "\n".$ex->getTraceAsString();
}
}
?>

Answer 1

You add SMTPOption to config Phpmailer
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);