How to resolve the error: Message: fsockopen(): unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Connection refused)

Question

I'm using codeigniter I created one email function to send email to particular email ID

public function email($email){
        $config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
        $config['smtp_host'] = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com';
        $config['smtp_timeout']=5;
        $config['smtp_port'] = '465';
        $config['smtp_user'] = '[email protected]';
        $config['smtp_pass'] = '********************';
        $config['mailtype'] = 'html';
        $config['charset'] = 'utf-8';
        $config['newline'] = "\r\n";
        $config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
        $this->load->library('email');
        $this->email->initialize($config);

        $this->email->from('[email protected]', 'MyEmailID');
        $this->email->to($email);
        $this->email->subject('My Subject');
        $this->email->message('My Message');
        return $this->email->send();
    }

That's working nice in my local machine but when I uploaded that code to hosting server (I'm using Godaddy hosting) I'm getting following error:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: fsockopen(): unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Connection refused)

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 2020

Backtrace:

File: /home/MyDir/public_html/application/models/BasicModel.php Line: 47 Function: send

File: /home/MyDir/public_html/application/controllers/Login.php Line: 48 Function: email

File: /home/MyDir/public_html/index.php Line: 315 Function: require_once

Solution

Use Tls istead of ssl and change port number to 587 $this->email->initialize($config); $config = array();

     //Load email library 
        $config['protocol']    = 'smtp';
        $config['smtp_host']    = 'tls://smtp.gmail.com';
        $config['smtp_port']    = '587';
        $config['smtp_timeout'] = '7';
        $config['smtp_user']    = 'email';
        $config['smtp_pass']    = 'password';
        $config['charset']    = 'utf-8';
        $config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
        $config['mailtype'] = 'html';
        $config['validation'] = TRUE; // bool whether to validate email or not      



            $this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
            ;
            $this->email->clear(TRUE);
            $this->email->to($this->input->post('email'));
            $this->email->subject($row_email->email_subject);

working site

Comments

[Abhijit Kumbhar]

That's not the mistake in my code I did that accidentally while typing question ..

[Abhijit Kumbhar]

I'm using godaddy host so where shoud I found php.ini

[dhruv jadia]

have you chacked with first solution?

[dhruv jadia]

reference how to create php.ini on godaddy server stackoverflow.com/questions/16140917/…

[Abhijit Kumbhar]

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