I have an on and off scenario with sending customer/order email using my upgraded AbanteCart 1.2.13 so did an experiment.
I installed a fresh NEW installation using dummy data, and setup the generic SSL connection using the AbanteCart manual as a guide. I am told by my ISP that port 465 is open.
I setup a NEW gmail account and allowed non secured apps to use its SMTP service -
IMAP Access:
Status: IMAP is enabled
(if there are other settings, having changed the settings to ALLOW non-secure apps, let me know.
...and sent test emails. Result, failure -
2018-10-03 18:30:12 - warning: AbanteCart core v.1.2.13 fsockopen(): unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Connection timed out) in <b>/xxxxxxxxxxxx/public_html/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpublic_html/core/lib/mail.php</b> on line <b>295</b>
I changed to the SendMail client option in AbanteCart. This time the mail was shown as sent, but NOT received by me.
When I did a password reset to test the internal system, I did receive that email with a link, so the system does work -
Web Store Name - Password Reset Request
Ideas?