We are trying (and failing) to setup the email contact form on our Wordpress site. We currently use Google Apps for our email. After installing WordPress, we read a thread on this forum that says in order to use the Winhost SMTP server we need to install the WP-Mail-SMTP plugin. We have installed this plugin, with the following settings: Send all WordPress emails via SMTP = TRUE SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com SMTP Port: 587 Encryption: Use SSL Encryption Authentication: Use SMTP Authentication Username and Passoword: same as web.config below However, when we try to send a test email we get the error: SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? (222457400) We know that our emaill account is working fine as we have also built an ASP.net website, from which we can send email using the .net SmtpClient library using the following web.config settings (we also set EnableSsl to true): Code: <smtp from="Email Name<[email protected]>" deliveryMethod="Network"> <network host="smtp.gmail.com" port="587" userName="[email protected]" password="xxx" /> </smtp> Do you have any ideas as to how we can get email within WordPress working? Thanks in advance.
i did some research and it looks like it is a pain to use SMTP over SSL with wordpress http://wordpress.org/support/topic/e-mail-problem-1 I recommend you configure wp to use our mail server.
