i have phpbb installed - as with most message boards it has email - you can choose to use SMTP or not. If i choose not to use SMTP and try to send an email i get the following error message: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() I then decided to enable SMTP and put in the SMTP: mail.wintertree.org i found under the email setting of my Winhost account. This did not work either. I then decided to migrate my mail to gmail and try again as, on my previous host I had gmail as my email service and everything worked fine with phpbb. When i put in the information from gmail for STMP using gmail which is: SMTP Server Address:tls://smtp.gmail.com SMTP Ports: 465 Authentication method for SMTP: PLAIN SMTP Username: enter your email address SMTP Password: enter the password of your email account I get the following error: Could not connect to smtp host : 0 : Unable to find the socket transport "tls" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? When I then contacted php support they advised to change the information to the following: SMTP server address: ssl://smtp.gmail.com SMTP server port: 465 Authentication method for SMTP: LOGIN which gives me this error: Could not connect to smtp host : 0 : Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? Responding back to the PHPBB people I was advised that i need to edit my php.ini file as follows open your PHP.ini and find ;OPENSSL.DLL remove ";" and restart server 2 problems here - I cant see/access/edit the php.ini file as it is stored on C:\windows\php.ini on the server. Secondly I cant reset the server obviously. Responding again to PHP support they then advised me to contact my host - which is you - I need this resolved, I have to have email ability through the phpbb board - what do i need to set and where for this to work. with my previous host it just worked so i am getting a little frustrated
