Sending email with gmail smtp with codeigniter email library

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Sending email with gmail smtp with codeigniter email library - El Forum - 04-07-2013

[eluser]futo[/eluser]
[quote author="dsloan" date="1255893123"]I had problems with this initially and got around it by loading the parameters into an array, then initialising the library using the array.

Code:
$config = Array(

    'protocol' => 'smtp',

    'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',

    'smtp_port' => 465,

    'smtp_user' => 'xxx',

    'smtp_pass' => 'xxx',

    'mailtype'  => 'html', 

    'charset'   => 'iso-8859-1'

);

$this->load->library('email', $config);

$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");

// Set to, from, message, etc.

$result = $this->email->send();

[/quote]

This helped me 2 ! ... Smile

... Now there is a totally different error I'll analyze know ... Smile

Just REMOVING THE FILE "email.php" (or renaming it) in the config folder in CodeIgniter MAKES THE DIFFERENCE.

EDIT:
AND !!! ... then I had to install sendmail (Linux/debian: sudo apt-get install sendmail) because PHP - efter correcting the above error - still came up with "Unable to send email using PHP mail()" ... - Now I've received the send mail. It works. Smile

The solution works without ssl. - My method in a controller looks like this (works!):

Code:
public function dummymail()

 {

  $config = array(

      'protocol' => 'smtp',

      'smtp_host' => 'mail.provider.net',

      'smtp_port' => 25,

      'smtp_user' => 'WRITE_YOUR_EMAIL_HERE',

      'smtp_pass' => 'WRITE_YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE',

      'charset' => 'utf-8',

      'mailtype' => 'html'

      );

  $this->load->library('email',$config);

  $this->email->set_newline("\r\n");

  $this->email->from('WRITE_YOUR_EMAIL_HERE', 'Your name');

  $this->email->to('WRITE_RECIPIENT_EMAIL_HERE');

  $this->email->subject('Email Test');

  $this->email->message('Testing at home the email class of CodeIgniter.');

  if($this->email->send()) {

   echo 'Your email was sent.';

  } else {

   show_error($this->email->print_debugger());

  }

 }

Later I'll see if I can get it to work with ssl.