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I’m trying to send email via my Google apps account and I’m getting the following error:

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A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Connection timed out)

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1670
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I’ve updated system/expressionengine/libraries/EE_Email.php to include:

  ‘smtp_port’ => 465,
  ‘crlf’      => “\r\n”,
  ‘newline’      => “\r\n”

...And updated /codeigniter/libraries/Email.php to include:

  var   $smtp_port   = “465”;    // SMTP Port
  var   $newline   = “\r\n”;    // Default newline. “\r\n” or “\n” (Use “\r\n”
  var   $crlf       = “\r\n”;

...And the SMTP username/password are definitely correct. Is there anything else I can check?

Cheers

Hi deeciduous,

What version of ExpressionEngine are you using? Also could you roll back your changes and then go to the control panel Admin > Email Configuration and choose php mail and then put in your settings. After that, test if your install will send email. If it does great, then we can work on getting SMTP to work for you.

Sean

I’ve followed the instructions here
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/169641/
and it works. Check your openssl

Hi Sean,

I’m using 2.3.1. I’ve rolled back the changes and tested PHP mail successfully. I’ve configured this a number of times before on a different host (1&1) - no problems. I’m on UK-Cheapest now, but I can’t see any reason why this would cause an issue.

w84me:

Thanks, I followed those instructions during my original setup. OpenSSL is enabled.

Cheers

deeciduous,

ExpressionEngine can send mail via php as we can see from your test. At this point not being able to do so via smtp is probably due to a setting your host has on the server. You should contact them and see if they can help you there.

Please let me know how this goes.

Sean

Hi Sean,

It turns out my host was blocking port 465. They have since opened and SMTP is working fine.

Thanks for your help.

deeciduous,

glad you got it working now. Am closing this thread, but feel free to post again when you need more help.

Sean