I've seen similar problems in the forum, but haven't found a solution that works for me. I have several installations of Concrete5 (5.7 all the way up to the latest v8) hosted on Bluehost. I cannot find the golden ticket to send emails via the website. Using PHP appears to work, but no email is actually sent. No luck with SMTP either. I use Gmail servers and either get timeout error or socket error. Is this a php.ini issue? (seems like it's set to port 25) or a user error? I'm assuming user name and password is my gmail info, not Concrete5 user and password. SSL? TLS? Port number? I'm a programming noob, and Concrete5 used to play nice with Bluehost and emails. Not sure which has changed... thanks in advance if anyone else uses Bluehost and can pass on a fix.