[RESOLVED] PEAR::MAIL

[manzoor]

Hi Im trying to send mail through SMTP using gmails smtp server. But the problem is I get a Failed to connect error. I dont know what I'm doing wrong. Perhaps someone could give insight of why the problem is occurring

Here is my code:

<?php
	require_once('Mail.php');

$to = '[e-mail]';

$headers['From'] = '[e-mail]';
$headers['Subject'] = 'New Version of PHP Released!';

$body = 'Go to http://www.php.net and download it today!';

$params = array('host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com', 'port' => '587', 'auth' => true,	
		'username' => '[e-mail]', 'password' => 'blah blah');

$message =& Mail::factory('smtp', $params);
$result = $message->send($to, $headers, $body);


if (PEAR::isError($result)) {
	echo "{$result->getMessage()}";
}
else {
	'Message successful';
}
?>

I get the following error:

Failed to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:587 [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:587 (Unknown error) (code: -1, response: )]

Regards

[dagon]

try port 465

[manzoor]

Hey, thanks that worked successfully. But I'm curious as to why it is not working on port 587?

I tried to send emails via GMail's smtp server in .NET on port 587 and it worked. Any clues?

[dagon]

according to the gmail docs, both 465 or 587 are acceptable. I didn't know for sure it was the solution but it seemed worth a try. you could contact them your self and see what they say.

[bradgrafelman]

manzoor wrote:

I tried to send emails via GMail's smtp server in .NET on port 587 and it worked.

Did you do so on the same server? It could be a networking issue (e.g. port 587 is blocked from outgoing connections by your network admin) - perhaps your host could shed some light on this.

Either way, don't forget to mark this thread resolved (if it is).