Member Avatar for ryy705

Hello,
Running the following code returns FALSE.

$server = "smtp.gmail.com";
fsockopen('tcp://' . $server, 587);

I know those are correct server address and port because I have ssmtp installed on my computer it uses those values to connect. But when use those values to connect from a real web server it fails. Why is that?
Thanks in advance.

PS. I don't if ssmtp uses tcp connect. Could that be an issue?

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Member Avatar for buddylee17

I dont believe that you can access mail remotely via tcp.

Member Avatar for ryy705

So it would only work on the local host then?

Is there way to connect remotely?

Member Avatar for sDJh

It does depend on the server you are using. I don't know if you can access gmail or hotmail but if you have a server running it should work. At least with my provider.

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