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'] = 'MyEmailID@gmail.com';
        $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('MyEmailID@gmail.com', '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

above code is working with my localhost but not with my hosting :( — Abhijit Kumbhar, Jan 02 '17 at 10:40

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 29 '19 at 14:13

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

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 09 '22 at 16:15

This kind of error was in my case caused by a source server firewall blocking the the SMTP connection.

It can help to unblock/whitelist destination IP or disable SMTP blocking/whitelist user in ConfigServerFirewall (if used) configuration:

SMTP_BLOCK = off
SMTP_ALLOWUSER = usernamehere

dhruv jadia · Answer 3 · 2017-01-02T10:55:30.747

-1

You forgot to add '

change from

 $config['smtp_host'] = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com';

to

$config['smtp_host'] = 'smtp.gmail.com';

or

Uncomment php_openssl.dll in php.ini

edited Jan 02 '17 at 10:55

answered Jan 02 '17 at 10:51

dhruv jadia

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That's not the mistake in my code I did that accidentally while typing question .. – Abhijit Kumbhar Jan 02 '17 at 10:52
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I'm using godaddy host so where shoud I found php.ini – Abhijit Kumbhar Jan 02 '17 at 11:22
have you chacked with first solution? – dhruv jadia Jan 02 '17 at 11:52
reference how to create php.ini on godaddy server http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16140917/how-to-access-the-php-ini-file-in-godaddy-shared-hosting-linux – dhruv jadia Jan 02 '17 at 12:23
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/132117/discussion-between-abhijit-kumbhar-and-dhruv-jadia). – Abhijit Kumbhar Jan 02 '17 at 15:14

score -1 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 02 '20 at 03:47

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Change from:

$config['smtp_host'] = 'smtp.seuDominio.com';

To:

$config['smtp_host'] = 'mail.seuDominio.com';
$config['smtp_port'] = 587; //587
$config['smtp_user'] = 'seu@dominio.com';
$config['smtp_pass'] = 'suaSenha';

Change from:

$config['protocol']  = 'smtp';

To:

$config['protocol']  = 'mail';
$config['validate']  = TRUE;
$config['mailtype']  = 'html';
$config['charset']   = 'utf-8';
$config['newline']   = "\r\n";

edited Oct 02 '20 at 03:47

prosoitos

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answered Oct 02 '20 at 02:47

william leite

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Please add some explanation to your answer such that others can learn from it. The original code does not contain any occurence of `smtp.seuDominio.com` – Nico Haase Oct 09 '22 at 16:17

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

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