email class doesn't work

[eluser]aryan_[/eluser]
I am using codeigniter email class to send email, but it doesn't work. page freezes. I'm using xampp.

Can I send email using gmail.

Please reply asap.

thanks

[eluser]johnnyForums[/eluser]
[quote author="aryan_" date="1248399063"]I am using codeigniter email class to send email, but it doesn't work. page freezes. I'm using xampp.

Can I send email using gmail.

Please reply asap.

thanks[/quote]

Maybe you should post some code. Your message is kind of vague.

[eluser]aryan_[/eluser]
$this->load->library('email');
$this->email->from('aryan@localhost.com', 'aryan');
$this->email->to('[email protected]', 'test');
$this->email->subject('Email subject');
$this->email->message('Testing the email class.');
$this->email->send();

I followed this tutorial

http://www.tildemark.com/programming/php...xampp.html

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
Hi aryan_,

I use this for testing my emails on xampp.

http://www.toolheap.com/test-mail-server-tool/

[eluser]eoinmcg[/eluser]
[quote author="aryan_" date="1248399063"]

Can I send email using gmail.

[/quote]

Yup. http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/84689/

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
Hi eoinmcg,

PHP will send email from your own sever, so if you have your own online website you should have a mail server

Enjoy
InsiteFX

[eluser]eoinmcg[/eluser]
Hi InsiteFX,

Haven't used XAMP myself hence answering only the part about whether CI can send via gmail.

PHP will send email from your own sever, so if you have your own online website you should have a mail server

Personally I don't like doing it this way; seems to get caught by spam filters way too much and when setting up production servers I tend to install only the bare minimum.

Each to his (or her) own, though ;-P

[eluser]aryan_[/eluser]
[quote author="InsiteFX" date="1248478214"]Hi eoinmcg,

PHP will send email from your own sever, so if you have your own online website you should have a mail server

Enjoy
InsiteFX[/quote]

I don't have any website.


Does dynamic ip causes any issue?

[eluser]eoinmcg[/eluser]
Like I said, I haven't used XAMP, but it sounds to me like you don't have any kind of mail server set up. Did you try with gmail? There is sample code on the page I linked to above :

Code:

$config = Array(
    'protocol' => 'smtp',
    'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
    'smtp_port' => 465,
    'smtp_user' => '[email protected]',
    'smtp_pass' => 'your_password',
);
$this->load->library('email', $config);
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");

$this->email->from('[email protected]', 'Your Name');
$this->email->to('[email protected]');

$this->email->subject(' CodeIgniter Rocks Socks ');
$this->email->message('Hello World');


if (!$this->email->send())
    show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
else
    echo 'Your e-mail has been sent!';

That should do the job.

[eluser]aryan_[/eluser]
Thanks guys. I have purchased hosting with smtp. Now I'm able to send email.

Thanks again for your kind help.