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problems in phpbb3 on apache server. Socket transport, SSL error


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Hey i am trying to get my phpbb3 authentication email script to work. I am trying to send it through SMTP to my gmail acount. The error i get when trying to send an email through phpbb3 is this

"Could not connect to smtp host : 0 : Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

 

<b>[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice</b>: in file <b>/includes/functions_messenger.php</b> on line <b>846</b>: <b>fsockopen() [<a href='function.fsockopen'>function.fsockopen</a>]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)</b><br />

"

this is how i have the emailer configured:

SMTP server address:  ssl://smtp.gmail.com

SMTP server port: 465

Authentication method for SMTP: PLAIN

SMTP username: Myname@gmail.com

SMTP password:mypassword

 

can anyone help me fix this problem?

 

The server address should just be smtp.gmail.com not ssl://smtp.gmail.com

 

The openssl php extension must be installed to allow php to make the https connection to the email server.

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