That's weird. I have to take a look at that. I only use gmail on mine. Thanks for the tip!
It was very odd. I had to do some goggling with the error it provided me, and that was the result somebody came up with. I used the query "phpmailer error gmail smtp" or something like that. I'll look back and see what I can find and post it.
This is the craziest thing @Brandin. I've been using this for months exactly like it was and all of a sudden I wasn't getting system emails. Commenting out line 115 fixed it. Crazy. You saved me a ton of time. THANK YOU!
This same solution did help me on another hosted web project, with local smtp.
@Mudmin - did we deploy a "fix" for this if there is one? Can we do something about if the host == this we don't have that?