Cannot send e-mails by SSL/TLS

Hi,

I'm using the last version (3.2.3PRO), and I really need SSL/TLS support for sending e-mails.

I have a payed gmail account (premium), so it requires SSL/TLS authentication. I just cannot use the "internal" method because my hosting have a stupid policy to forbidden to send more than 10 e-mails per HOUR !

Under Admin > E-Mail > E-Mail System Configuration

- Internal PHP mail() function (default) does works fine, but just cannot use that one (see reason above).

- SMTP is the problem here.

Using old included class.phpmailer.php & class.smtp.php I was getting:

Code:

No SSL or TLS:
WARNING: fsockopen(): unable to connect to smtp.googlemail.com:465 (Connection timed out) in line 122 of file class.smtp.php

Email method verification
 
# There was an error sending the email message
# SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

Using SSL:
WARNING: fsockopen(): unable to connect to ssl://smtp.googlemail.com:465 (Connection timed out) in line 122 of file class.smtp.php

Using TLS:
WARNING: fsockopen(): unable to connect to tls://smtp.googlemail.com:465 (Connection timed out) in line 122 of file class.smtp.php

Then I decided to update PHPMailer from 2.0.4 (included) to 5.1, but now I'm getting this error:
SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

Email method verification

# There was an error sending the email message
# SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

What now?

Thanks,
Fernando

I have found this and looks like PHPMailer isn't the problem:
http://mediakey.dk/~cc/send-email-using-php-phpmailer-and-gmail/

Code:

# $mail->Mailer = "smtp";  
# $mail->Host = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";  
# $mail->Port = 465;  
# $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // turn on SMTP authentication  
# $mail->Username = "username@gmail.com"; // SMTP username  
# $mail->Password = "password"; // SMTP password

Instructions from Gmail:


From PHPMailer:

Code:

<?php

// example on using PHPMailer with GMAIL

include("class.phpmailer.php");
include("class.smtp.php"); // note, this is optional - gets called from main class if not already loaded

$mail             = new PHPMailer();

$body             = $mail->getFile('contents.html');
$body             = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body);

$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";                 // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";      // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port       = 465;                   // set the SMTP port

$mail->Username   = "yourname@gmail.com";  // GMAIL username
$mail->Password   = "password";            // GMAIL password

$mail->From       = "replyto@yourdomain.com";
$mail->FromName   = "Webmaster";
$mail->Subject    = "This is the subject";
$mail->AltBody    = "This is the body when user views in plain text format"; //Text Body
$mail->WordWrap   = 50; // set word wrap

$mail->MsgHTML($body);

$mail->AddReplyTo("replyto@yourdomain.com","Webmaster");

$mail->AddAttachment("/path/to/file.zip");             // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment("/path/to/image.jpg", "new.jpg"); // attachment

$mail->AddAddress("username@domain.com","First Last");

$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML

if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
  echo "Message has been sent";
}

?>

User: my e-mail
Pass: my pass
Host: smtp.googlemail.com (tried smtp.gmail.com too, no joy)
Port: 465
Security: SSL (tried TLS too)

Using test gmail e-mail, to another of my gmail account.

Always getting: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

Looks like 465 port is begin blocked on webhosting, might be that.

Confirmed, they are blocking such ports.

Sigh.