gmail send problems

I am trying to send mail out to a gmail account.

Using osticket 1.6.0 - on ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Setting used

SMTP Host ssl://smtp.gmail.com

Port 465

Tied with out ssl:// and also on port 587 - both enables on the ufw

Error

Failed to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com

nslookup

xxxx@xxxxxx-test:/var/www# nslookup smtp.gmail.com

Server:

Address:

Non-authoritative answer:

smtp.gmail.com canonical name = gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com.

Name: gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com

Address: 209.85.227.109

Can connect from server to smtp.gmail.com using telnet servername port

Also Tied mailtest as follows

<?php

$socket = fsockopen('ssl://smtp.gmail.com', 465, $errno, $errstr);

var_dump($socket, $errno, $errstr);

which returns

resource(2) of type (stream) int(0) string(0) ""

Please can anyone offer any help

thanks