Question

I’ve been trying to use PHP to access gmail but I can’t get it to work.

I’m not sure if it’s MAMP PRO’s issue. I’m using MAMP PRO 2.0.3

Here is my code:

$server="{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX";
$inbox = imap_open($server,$username,$password) or die('Cannot connect to Gmail: ' . imap_last_error());

And the error I got was:

PHP Notice:  Unknown: Can't open mailbox {imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX: invalid remote specification (errflg=2) in Unknown on line 0

Answer 1

After some research, I have found out that MAMP PRO doesn’t have imap-ssl installed and therefore it cannot connect to gmail server since it requires ssl.

Instead, used PHPMailer library.