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Adam
Adam

Reputation: 9049

sending email in CodeIgniter through gmail

I'm following a tutorial to send emails using gmail, however what I get is a page that just hangs and doesn't even load an error. I'm using MAMP so that may be a reason why it isnt working.

class Email extends CI_Controller{

    public function __construct()
   {
        parent::__construct();

   }

    function index(){

        $config = Array(
            'protocol' => 'smtp',
            'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
            'smtp_port' => 465,
            'smtp_user' => 'email',
            'smtp_pass' => 'pass'
        );

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

        $this->email->set_newline("/r/n");
        $this->email->from('email', 'George');
        $this->email->to('email');
        $this->email->subject('hey this is an email');
        $this->email->message('this is the content of the email');

        if($this->email->send()){

                echo 'Your message was sent';

        }else{

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

        }

    }



}

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3179

Answers (5)

Pascal Spruit
Pascal Spruit

Reputation: 9

MAMP does not ship with the openssl extension, but you can create it yourself. For details see this tutorial

Upvotes: 0

AlunR
AlunR

Reputation: 465

Start by posting using the standard smtp ports and make sure that works using the config below:

  function index(){

        $config = Array(             'protocol' => 'smtp',             'smtp_host' => 'smtp.googlemail.com',             'smtp_port' => 25,             'smtp_user' => 'email',             'smtp_pass' => 'pass'         );

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

        $this->email->from('email', 'George');         $this->email->to('email');         $this->email->subject('hey this is an email');         $this->email->message('this is the content of the email');

        $this->email->send(); }

Once you've tried that and it's all working have a read through this:

http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/84689/

Upvotes: -1

Robin Castlin
Robin Castlin

Reputation: 10996

I just did this successfully myself, but through sending all values in config/email.php instead. That part shouldn't matter.

Well basicly are you trying to send through a @gmail account or your own domain? If you're trying to go through your own domain, you need to change the DNS to relevant google settings:

Create MX Records

Upvotes: 0

Moyed Ansari
Moyed Ansari

Reputation: 8461

in your php.ini file uncomment extension=php_openssl.dll 

$config = Array(
            'protocol'  => 'smtp',
            'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
            'smtp_port' => '465',
            'smtp_user' => '[email protected]',
            'smtp_pass' => 'password',
            'mailtype'  => 'html',
            'starttls'  => true,
            'newline'   => "\r\n"
        );

    $this->load->library('email', config);
    $this->email->from('[email protected]', 'George');
    $this->email->to('[email protected]');
    $this->email->subject('hey this is an email');
    $this->email->message('this is the content of the email');
    $this->email->send();
    echo $this->email->print_debugger();

Hope this will work

Upvotes: 7

Adam
Adam

Reputation: 1694

The line causing problems is:

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

Remove it and try sending the email.

Upvotes: 0

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