logan.hawes Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 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? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/146819-problems-in-phpbb3-on-apache-server-socket-transport-ssl-error/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/146819-problems-in-phpbb3-on-apache-server-socket-transport-ssl-error/#findComment-770960 Share on other sites More sharing options...
logan.hawes Posted February 25, 2009 Author Share Posted February 25, 2009 How would i install that extension? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/146819-problems-in-phpbb3-on-apache-server-socket-transport-ssl-error/#findComment-770983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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