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    copied!<p>I have found numerous posts on Stacked overflow and other forums regarding sending the email using a batch file like: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/712392/send-email-using-gmail-smtp-server-from-php-page">Send email using the GMail SMTP server from a PHP page</a></p> <p>But none seems to work for me... I have been able to schedule task.. using Windows task scheduler and wrote the batch file:</p> <p>@echo start C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.1\php.exe -f C:\wamp\www\email.php</p> <p>PHP file shows a simple script as below:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php require_once "Mail.php"; $from = "Prashant Yahoo &lt;prashant.balan@yahoo.co.in&gt;"; $to = "Prashant Hotmail &lt;prashant.balan@hotmail.com&gt;"; $subject = "Hi!"; $body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?"; $host = "ssl:\\smtp.gmail.com"; $port = "465"; $username = "&lt;user@gmail.com&gt;"; or user.gmail.com as stated in the above SO link $password = "password"; $headers = array ('From' =&gt; $from, 'To' =&gt; $to, 'Subject' =&gt; $subject); $smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' =&gt; $host, 'port' =&gt; $port, 'auth' =&gt; true, 'username' =&gt; $username, 'password' =&gt; $password)); $mail = $smtp-&gt;send($to, $headers, $body); if (PEAR::isError($mail)) { echo("&lt;p&gt;" . $mail-&gt;getMessage() . "&lt;/p&gt;"); } else { echo("&lt;p&gt;Message successfully sent!&lt;/p&gt;"); } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>I have PEAR setup on my local host already and everything I need. I even downloaded the latest OpenSSL and replaced the necessary files and as directed here and set environment variables: <a href="http://raibledesigns.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ApacheSSL" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://raibledesigns.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ApacheSSL</a></p> <p><strong>I receive the following error: <p>Failed to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? (code: -1, response: )]</p></strong></p> <p>How to solve this? Please help..</p> <p><strong><em>ANSWER</em></strong> <strong>OPEN YOUR PHP.INI FILE INSIDE THE C:\PHP or in my case C:\WAMP\BIN\PHP\PHP 5.3.8 and remove the semi-colon's ahead of: extension=php_openssl.dll and extension=php_sockets.dll Hope this would help someone else! ~~~~~~ Special Thanks to Tomas ~~~~~~~</strong></p>
 

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