Sending email from gmail

For those that are searching an updated tutorial

Published march the 31 in 2021

check out this one
https://www.positronx.io/codeigniter-sen...h-example/

WARNING: for those of you who can't succeed in the SMTP authentication


since I've lost some time on this issue

For the sake of avoid somebody else to loose time

If you can't authenticate, read carefully the messages with the debug options

I have been deceived by these authentication errors

end it ended up with being the connection ports 465 and 587 being not accessible from my computer to remote SMTP server

e.g. xampp in windows

well, the issue was Avast antivirus and with modern antiviruses the issue could happen either with third party antiviruses

So in the case you can't send emails, a quick troubleshoot is to disable antivirus and make a test