I am getting following error when using contact form

[Former user]

I have tried port 587 also it gives same error please help

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Connection timed out) in /home/a7258783/public_html/system/library/phpmailer/class.smtp.php on line 135SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. Notice: Error: MySQL server has gone away Error No: 2006 SELECT value FROM oc_setting WHERE key = 'sms_lang' in /home/a7258783/public_html/system/database/mysql.php on line 50

[Mike McLean]

are you using crappy free hosting? some of them actually do not allow secure connections, and there is quite simply nothing you can do about it.