PEAR Mail unable to connect to Gmail SMTP, failed to connect to socket
Facts
I am using PEAR Mail, I want to use gmail SMTP to send a mail. I have Apache/2.4.27 (Win64) PHP/7.2.0beta3, PEAR 1.10.15, Mail 1.4.1, Net_SMTP 1.8.0, Net_Socket 1.2.2.
I went to php.ini and added extension = php_openssl.dll. The error.log gives no ssl-related errors.
Here is the code
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = '<[email protected]>';
$to = '<[email protected]>';
$subject = 'Hi!';
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
$headers = array(
'From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject
);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array(
'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
'port' => '465',
'auth' => true,
'username' => '[email protected]',
'password' => 'mypassword'
));
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
echo('<p>' . $mail->getMessage() . '</p>');
} else {
echo('<p>Message successfully sent!</p>');
}
The problem
I get this error
Failed to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: fsockopen(): unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Unknown error) (code: -1, response: )]
and I have no clue what to do, I Googled but I got more confused.
Please advice on how to fix this. Thank you
Update
Following symcbean's instructions I got the following results :
bool(true)
array(5) {
[0]=> string(31) "alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com"
[1]=> string(26) "gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com"
[2]=> string(31) "alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com"
[3]=> string(31) "alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com"
[4]=> string(31) "alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com" }
IPV4 address = 64.233.188.27
If you've got this far without errors then problem is with your SSL config
Check you've got your cacerts deployed in one of the following locations
default_cert_file = C:\Program Files\Common Files\SSL/cert.pem
default_cert_file_env = SSL_CERT_FILE
default_cert_dir = C:\Program Files\Common Files\SSL/certs
default_cert_dir_env = SSL_CERT_DIR
default_private_dir = C:\Program Files\Common Files\SSL/private
default_default_cert_area = C:\Program Files\Common Files\SSL
ini_cafile =
ini_capath =
If all good so far, then this bit should work....
fsockopen
Warning: fsockopen(): SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:1416F086:SSL routines:tls_process_server_certificate:certificate verify failed in C:\Apache24\htdocs\phptest2.php on line 28
Warning: fsockopen(): Failed to enable crypto in C:\Apache24\htdocs\phptest2.php on line 28
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Unknown error) in C:\Apache24\htdocs\phptest2.php on line 28
bool(false) int(0) string(0) ""
Line 28 is this line var_dump(fsockopen("ssl://smtp.gmail.com", 465, $errno, $errstr, 3.0));
Thanks again
Update #2
I googled just "fsockopen(): SSL operation failed with code 1." of the first warning.
End up here . I changed the mail port of the AVG, like the answer. symcbean's code run with no errors, but my code replied with
mail error : authentication failure [SMTP: Invalid response code received from server (code: 534, response: 5.7.14 Please log in via your web browser and 5.7.14 then try again. 5.7.14 Learn more at 5.7.14 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78754 c1sm1243434wre.84 - gsmtp)]
So I googled code: 534, response: 5.7.14 and end-up here, followed the instructions of the first answer by emgh3i, enabled less secured connections and allowed access to my google account
And its working perfectly now.
Answer
Your host configuration shouldn't contain the protocol. The reason it's failing is because it's probably trying to perform a DNS Lookup on ssl://smtp.gmail.com and failing.
Change
'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
to
'host' => 'smtp.gmail.com',