I cannot send any emails using Codeigniter - php

Question

I have created a controller and made a test function in the controller to test if the email is sent or not.
I checked with different email addresses, but didn't succeed. This is my code example:
public function sendmail() {
$config['protocol'] = 'sendmail';
$config['mailpath'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
$config['charset'] = 'iso-8859-1';
$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$user_id = 1;
$name = 'Mark Alan';
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
$this->email->from('info#domainname.com', "Test Name");
$this->email->to('test#domainname.com');
$this->email->subject('Test Mail');
$this->email->message('This is a test message');
$this->email->send();
echo $this->email->print_debugger();
}

Answer 1

With Codeigniter (assuming you have auto-loaded the email library) you can either set an email preference in a config file, named email.php and these preferences are loaded automatically from there. It could look like:
// Setting Email Preferences
$config['useragent'] = 'CodeIgniter'; // Mail engine switcher: 'CodeIgniter' or could be 'PHPMailer'
$config['protocol'] = 'smtp'; // 'mail', 'sendmail', or 'smtp'
$config['mailpath'] = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
or like in your example, you can set them manually, but need to initialize it, so don't forget this line after defining your $config[] array:
$this->email->initialize($config);

Answer 2

Try this code:
function sendMail()
{
$config = Array(
'protocol' => 'smtp',
'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com', //Your Host
'smtp_port' => 465, // Add 25 port if you sending from your smtp mail server
'smtp_user' => 'xxx#gmail.com', // change it to yours, server email
'smtp_pass' => 'xxx', // change it to yours
'mailtype' => 'html',
'charset' => 'iso-8859-1',
'wordwrap' => TRUE
);
$message = '';
$this->load->library('email', $config);
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
$this->email->from('xxx#gmail.com'); // change it to yours
$this->email->to('xxx#gmail.com');// change it to yours
$this->email->subject('Resume from JobsBuddy for your Job posting');
$this->email->message($message);
if($this->email->send())
{
echo 'Email sent.';
}
else
{
show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
}
}
Note: Please add your smtp port and your smtp email account detail.