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Phplist Bounce Handling Won't Connect Help, I have tried everything!

#1 User is offline   ScriptKitten 

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Posted 26 July 2010 - 05:57 PM

I recently installed from fantastico, phplist. I can get everything to work great except for the bounces. I have tried probably three different emails. I even tried signing up for a google email just to see if that would work. Even stranger, I tried a trial version of SendBlaster, and I got it to connect with the google email. PHPList still won't connect. Here is the error I get: Cannot create POP3 connection to pop.gmail.com: Can't connect to gmail-pop.l.google.com,995

Here is the code I used.

$message_envelope = '*****@gmail.com';

# Handling bounces. Check README.bounces for more info
# This can be 'pop' or 'mbox'
$bounce_protocol = 'pop';

# set this to 0, if you set up a cron to download bounces regularly by using the
# commandline option. If this is 0, users cannot run the page from the web
# frontend. Read README.commandline to find out how to set it up on the
# commandline
define ("MANUALLY_PROCESS_BOUNCES",1);

# when the protocol is pop, specify these three
$bounce_mailbox_host = 'pop.gmail.com';
$bounce_mailbox_user = '******@gmail.com';
$bounce_mailbox_password = "******";

# the "port" is the remote port of the connection to retrieve the emails
# the default should be fine but if it doesn't work, you can try the second
# one. To do that, add a # before the first line and take off the one before the
# second line

#$bounce_mailbox_port = "110/pop3/notls";
$bounce_mailbox_port = "995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert";


Anyone have any thoughts? I have been pulling my hair out for days! Should I abandon phplist? What is a better free alternative?

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Posted 26 July 2010 - 06:43 PM

Can you please change the gmail mail server as;

$bounce_mailbox_host = 'ssl://pop.gmail.com';


and give a try
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Posted 26 July 2010 - 07:18 PM

Welcome to the forums ScriptKitten :)
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Posted 27 July 2010 - 02:25 AM

Welcome to the forum, ScriptKitten. :)
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Posted 27 July 2010 - 09:38 AM

Thanks for the idea Alex. Here is the error I got.

annot create POP3 connection to ssl://pop.gmail.com: Can't open mailbox {ssl://pop.gmail.com:995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX: invalid remote specification

It didn't even try to connect like it usually does.

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