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Several issues going on for me in Joomla CiviCRM preventing real world usage

1. Cant send email via create new mail
get error

The mail library returned the following error message:
Failed to connect to a:a [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: fsockopen(): unable to connect to a:0 (Failed to parse address "a") (code: -1, response: )]

If i turn on logging in civicrm.settings.php

• a log is created 
• the error goes away
• success message is given
• email is not delivered - config file says this is the cae when turning on logging

I have verified via raw php that fsockopen does work - we have php mail software working ok {ie typical cpanel horde,roundcube,squirrelmail} by running:

$socket = fsockopen('mail.domainname.org.uk', 587, $errno, $errstr);
var_dump($socket, $errno, $errstr);

Have verified smtp settings work - what happened to plain old mailer?

So what to look for in the log?It seems like normal email