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Hi there,

I hit a minor problem with setting up mail, using SMTP, from CiviMail - in 3.1 beta3.
I'm using Joomla 1.5.14 and PHP5. The problem is not a bug, exactly, but more of a feature request:
I host a few installations of Civi on the same machine, and all the others are running version 2.2+. They all use an SMTP gateway to send bulk mail, so I can't change the incoming mail settings to SSL without rejecting mail from the other live domains.

To get around it, I raised the PHP version check from 5.1.0 to 7.1.0, just before Net_SMTP decides to use SSL:

Line 531 of /administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/packages/Net/SMTP.php:

        /* We can only attempt a TLS connection if we're running PHP 5.1.0 or
         * later, have access to the OpenSSL extension, are connected to an
         * SMTP server which supports the STARTTLS extension, and aren't
         * already connected over a secure (SSL) socket connection. */
        $tls = version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '7.1.0', '>=') && extension_loaded('openssl') &&


Would it be possible to make an option for the authentication method to avoid Civi defaulting to using SSL for Outgoing Mail?