PEAR Mail unable to connect to Gmail SMTP, failed to connect to socket

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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_SMT

Answer 1

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',