Sending HTML message through PEAR while using SMTP authentication returns an error

Question

I\'m trying to send an HTML message while using SMTP authentication to Gmail in PHP. Here is the script that I am using:

require_once \"Mail.php\";
require_o         


        

Answer 1

I had this issue and via debugging managed to get all kinds of different errors (below). Strangest thing is that it completely stopped working on about 11/2/2017. I didn't do any updates. Previously it would randomly work so I put in a retry and it always succeeded < 5 tries, until the 2nd. Strange.

Failed to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 [SMTP: Invalid response code received from server (code: -1, response: )]
fsockopen(): Failed to enable crypto
fsockopen(): unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Unknown error)
SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:14090086:SSL routines:ssl3_get_server_certificate:certificate verify failed

(and so on)

Another used posted this troubleshooting step that helped me get more errors so I could Google more what could be the cause:

$result = fsockopen('ssl://smtp.gmail.com', 465, $error_no,
$error_message, 5);     
if($result === false) {         
    echo "error no:
$error_no error message: $error_message";       echo print_r($result,true);     
}else{      
    echo 'success\n\n';
}

My fix was to add a CA bundle file, since apparantly PHP couldn't verify the cert of Google:

• Download CA bundle https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html & extract to C:\Program Files\PHP\ssl\cacert.pem
• Specify location in php.ini: openssl.cafile = C:\Program Files\PHP\ssl\cacert.pem