CakeEmail problems

I'm currently rewriting a client's web application using cakephp.  One of the pages requires sending the data in a form to the company in an email.  I'm having problems with this in my development environment:

• Ubuntu 14.10
• Apache2/PHP  with all the normal libraries like lib_php, mod_rewrite, etc
• PHP 5.5
• CakePHP 2.5.4
  

After poking about a bit on the web, I've seen that I have to load lib_openssl and that I should include the following line in my php.ini file.  So in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini I've added the recommended line to the Dynamic Extensions section:

extension=php_openssl.so

I'm not sure if this is correct because Ubuntu includes php_openssl via gnutls.  However, I don't know how to test this.

I've created an email.php file under app/Config with the following class definition:

class EmailConfig {
 public $gmail = array(
 'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
 'port' => 465,
 'username' => 'myusername@gmail.com',
 'password' => 'mypassword',
 'transport' => 'Smtp',
 );
}

The username and password are copied from Thunderbird, so should be OK.

Finally, I set up a test page under app/View/Pages, called email-tester.ctp containing the code:

<?php
App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email');

$Email = new CakeEmail();
$Email->from(array('myusername@gmail.com' => 'My Gmail Address'))
 ->to('myemail@myemailprovider.con')
 ->subject('About')
 ->send('My message');
?>
<p>Email sent...</p>

When I try to open this page at localhost/myproject/pages/email-tester I get an error message as follows:

Error: An Internal Error Has Occurred.

Stack Trace

• CORE/Cake/Network/Email/MailTransport.php line 51 → MailTransport->_mail(string, string, string, string, null)
• CORE/Cake/Network/Email/CakeEmail.php line 1158 → MailTransport->send(CakeEmail)
• APP/View/Pages/email-tester.ctp line 8 → CakeEmail->send(string)
• CORE/Cake/View/View.php line 948 → include(string)
• CORE/Cake/View/View.php line 910 → View->_evaluate(string, array)
• CORE/Cake/View/View.php line 471 → View->_render(string)
• CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php line 954 → View->render(string, null)
• APP/Controller/PagesController.php line 69 → Controller->render(string)
• [internal function] → PagesController->display(string)
• CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php line 490 → ReflectionMethod->invokeArgs(PagesController, array)
• CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php line 191 → Controller->invokeAction(CakeRequest)
• CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php line 165 → Dispatcher->_invoke(PagesController, CakeRequest)
• APP/webroot/index.php line 108 → Dispatcher->dispatch(CakeRequest, CakeResponse)

If anyone can decode this for me, or give me some idea as to what I should try next, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks in advance


Peter

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