sending email using code igniter

I tried your update. I'm not getting different results with what I have hosted on go daddy, but I got some interesting results when I tried to access the file in my mamp. I don't think I can send email from my mamp, which is why I was testing this on a web server. Should I look at any other files on the server?

This was the output from my mamp (if that has any relevance, I don't think my mamp is really capable of sending email):

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/ci/application/config/config.php:1)

Filename: core/Common.php

Line Number: 440

An Error Was Encountered

220 mx.google.com ESMTP cl9sm1841955igb.0 - gsmtp

hello: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [71.57.41.94]
250-SIZE 35882577
250-8BITMIME
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH XOAUTH2 PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-CHUNKING
250 SMTPUTF8
Failed to authenticate password. Error: 534-5.7.14 Please log in via your web browser and 534-5.7.14 then try again. 534-5.7.14 Learn more at 534 5.7.14 https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answ...swer=78754 cl9sm1841955igb.0 - gsmtp
from: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 cl9sm1841955igb.0 - gsmtp
The following SMTP error was encountered: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at 530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 cl9sm1841955igb.0 - gsmtp
to: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 cl9sm1841955igb.0 - gsmtp
The following SMTP error was encountered: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at 530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 cl9sm1841955igb.0 - gsmtp
data: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 cl9sm1841955igb.0 - gsmtp
The following SMTP error was encountered: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at 530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 cl9sm1841955igb.0 - gsmtp
502 5.5.1 Unrecognized command. cl9sm1841955igb.0 - gsmtp
The following SMTP error was encountered: 502 5.5.1 Unrecognized command. cl9sm1841955igb.0 - gsmtp
Unable to send email using PHP SMTP. Your server might not be configured to send mail using this method.
220 mx.google.com ESMTP fr4sm1835034igd.4 - gsmtp
hello: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [71.57.41.94]
250-SIZE 35882577
250-8BITMIME
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH XOAUTH2 PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-CHUNKING
250 SMTPUTF8
Failed to authenticate password. Error: 534-5.7.14 Please log in via your web browser and 534-5.7.14 then try again. 534-5.7.14 Learn more at 534 5.7.14 https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answ...swer=78754 fr4sm1835034igd.4 - gsmtp
from: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 fr4sm1835034igd.4 - gsmtp
The following SMTP error was encountered: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at 530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 fr4sm1835034igd.4 - gsmtp
to: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 fr4sm1835034igd.4 - gsmtp
The following SMTP error was encountered: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at 530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 fr4sm1835034igd.4 - gsmtp
data: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 fr4sm1835034igd.4 - gsmtp
The following SMTP error was encountered: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at 530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answe...swer=14257 fr4sm1835034igd.4 - gsmtp
502 5.5.1 Unrecognized command. fr4sm1835034igd.4 - gsmtp
The following SMTP error was encountered: 502 5.5.1 Unrecognized command. fr4sm1835034igd.4 - gsmtp
Unable to send email using PHP SMTP. Your server might not be configured to send mail using this method.
User-Agent: CodeIgniter
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:47:53 +0100
From: "Ben Abrams" <[email protected]>
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?This_is_an_email_test.?=
Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
X-Sender: [email protected]
X-Mailer: CodeIgniter
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Mime-Version: 1.0


Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

It is working.