Unable to send emails in my codeigniter application using mailgun SMTP

Question

I have used mailgun smtp to sending emails from my codeignitor app I am getting following error while sending email

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen] : unable to connect to smtp.mailgun.org:587 (Connection timed out)

PORT 25,465,587 are open/unblocked on server

allow_url_fopen is on in php.ini

Answer 1

Check if your CI app web host/server allows sending email. Sometimes web hosts don't allow sending emails in default to avoid using them as an email spam server. SMTP port might be blocked. I think you can change it I just don't know where. Try contacting your service provider ask them if they allow sending emails using smtp.

:)