How to set up OpenSSL so I can send mail with PHP vis Gmail SMTP?

Question

I have been sat solid looking for the answer to this question, I have tried many techniques and I just cannot get this to work.

I am using the PHP Mailer libraries to send an email through Gmail SMTP server, I am using PHP 4 with iis6 on a windows 2003 box.

This is the error I am given:

Strict Standards: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/London' for '1.0/DST' instead in E:\\ltuweb\\36Hours\\phpmailer\\class.phpmailer.php on line 1612

Strict Standards: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/London' for '1.0/DST' instead in E:\\ltuweb\\36Hours\\phpmailer\\class.phpmailer.php on line 1616

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) in E:\\ltuweb\\36Hours\\phpmailer\\class.smtp.php on line 122 Message was not sent Mailer Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.

Please can someone help me fix this, thank you in advance!

Ash

--------------- UPDATE! ----------------

I cannot see when I type in phpinfo(); a heading that says OpenSSL enabled, how do i address this issue because it is definitely uncommented in my php.ini file.

--------------- UPDATE! ----------------

It appears to have been our firewall etc that was blocking the ssl properly, grrrr dam cisco. Thanks everyone!

Thank you!

Answer 1

Did you install PHP with OpenSSL support, as described here? http://php.net/manual/en/openssl.installation.php