Codeigniter Amazon SES SMTP Connect Error - php

Question

I want to send email using Amazon SES in Codeigniter, i have tried everything, i also tried the earlier questions asked on codeigniter too, but i am not able to find the solution for this.
public function add_applicants()
{
$this->load->model('visa/India_model');
$datan = $this->India_model->insertappdata();
$appid = $datan[appid];
$this->load->library('email');
$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
$config['charset'] = 'ISO-8859-1';
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$config['smtp_host'] = "ssl://email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com";
$config['smtp_user'] = "SMTP USER SES";
$config['smtp_pass'] = "SMTP Password SES";
$config['smtp_port'] = "465";
$config['newline'] = "\r\n";
$config['mailsender'] = "support#indiaevisaservice.com";
$config['smtp_crypto'] = 'tls';
$this->email->initialize($config);
$this->email->print_debugger();
$this->email->from('support#verfiedemail.com', 'GYEV Experts');
$this->email->to('imthegrv#gmail.com', 'Test To');
$this->email->subject('Test');
$this->email->message('test');
if($this->email->send()):
print_r($appid);
else:
print_r($this->email->print_debugger());
endif;
}
i am getting error
SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting

Answer 1

You didn't follow the link provided in the error message, which provides tests that you can use to diagnose your problem.
These three lines are inconsistent:
$config['smtp_host'] = "ssl://email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com";
$config['smtp_port'] = "465";
$config['smtp_crypto'] = 'tls';
tls mode will not work on port 465. That should be ssl. Alternatively, change port to 587, and it should be an integer, not a string. There's also no need for the ssl:// prefix on your host; that just adds confusion. First step, change them to this:
$config['smtp_host'] = 'email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com';
$config['smtp_port'] = 465;
$config['smtp_crypto'] = 'ssl';
You may still have other issues (e.g. your ISP may block outbound SMTP connections), but there are many other tests listed in the guide that will help you diagnose that.