Title: Does plugin work with Gmail?
Last modified: February 10, 2017

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# Does plugin work with Gmail?

 *  Resolved [swmagic999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swmagic999/)
 * (@swmagic999)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-work-with-gmail/)
 * Does this plugin work with smtp.gmail.com?
 * I tried my gmail and sent a test and got this error:
 * Connection: opening to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465, timeout=300, options=array (
   )
   2017-02-10 17:48:29 Connection: Failed to connect to server. Error number 2. “
   Error notice: stream_socket_client() [function.stream-socket-client]: unable 
   to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Connection refused) 2017-02-10 17:48:
   29 SMTP ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused (111) 2017-02-
   10 17:48:29 SMTP connect() failed. [https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting)

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 *  [cyfocus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cyfocus/)
 * (@cyfocus)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-work-with-gmail/#post-8845909)
 * I believe gmail uses TLS at port 587
 *  [Callum Macdonald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chmac/)
 * (@chmac)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-work-with-gmail/#post-8892922)
 * Yes, many users have reported success with Gmail.

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 * Last reply from: [Callum Macdonald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chmac/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-plugin-work-with-gmail/#post-8892922)
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