Need Help to Send PHP mail via SMTP

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I am using bbpress for my forums site. I have free hosting service for this at some host.

The problem is that, sending a mail from my forums to users take very long, up to 20 minutes. This is due to the free hosting service I am using as said by the support. And gmail SMTP is recommended for better results.

Now I want to send mails via Gmail SMTP to the users so that it would reach faster. But how is the question.

For a check, I created the page shown below, but even that won't send any mail to the set destination.
<?php
require('/bb-includes/backpress/class.mailer.php');

$mail = new PHPMailer();

$mail->IsSMTP();                     // send via SMTP
$mail->Host     = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465"; // SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;     // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "****@****.net";  // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "******"; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPDebug = true;


$mail->From = '****@****.net';
$mail->FromName = '***** Forums';

$mail->Subject  =  "Here is the subject";
$mail->Body     =  "This is the <b>HTML body</b>";
$mail->AltBody  =  "This is the text-only body";

if(!$mail->Send())
{
   echo "Message was not sent <p>";
   echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
   exit;
}

echo "Message has been sent";
?>
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