System Requirements:
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2
The Problem:
You know that something a bit odd is going on when one of a batch of servers starts throwing errors that the others sailed past. In this case trying to configure PEAR for a new PHP install with Mail, Mail_Mime and Net_SMTP (pear.php.net/mail, pear.php.net/mail_mime and pear.php.net/net_smtp) should be fairly standard. The other servers took the install and even this server too Mail and Mail_Mime but would not accept Net_SMTP returning:
Leaving it overnight before rolling up my sleeves (in case it was just downtime at the package repository) the fix was fairly simple.
The Fix
If you are experiencing the same problem this server was having, running the following
pear remote-list
Will result in
If you get something akin to the above simply browse to:
and delete the pear folder