Swift Mailer 530 должен сначала выпустить команду Starttls.

//encrytion should be set while using email library
$transport = (new \Swift_SmtpTransport($smtp_server, $smtp_port))
                        ->setUsername($smtp_username)
                        ->setPassword($smtp_password)
                        ->setEncryption('tls');  //important to set encryption here.
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