I am trying to send an e-mail from a cron using CakePHP shell but I am getting the following error "Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?: 0".
The problem is on local server only, I am using WAMP server and the php_openssl extension is correctly turned on. When I checked if the extension is being loaded from a controller everything seems fine but when I debug the shell action, the extension doesn't seem to be loaded. Furthermore when I try to send an e-mail from a controller, the e-mail is successfully sent. I am using gmail credentials thus the ssl requirement.
Thanks
Solution found, it seems that you have to uncomment the line where the openssl extension can be found in (path to wamp)\bin\php(your php version)\php.ini since there are 2 php.ini files, enabling it only in the (path to wamp)\bin\apache(apache version)\bin\php.ini is not enough
You need setting for php and apache
Check ssl_module in the Apache modules. Check php_openssl in the PHP extensions.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11139528/unable-to-find-the-socket-transport-ssl-cakephp-sending-e-mail-from-shell