Why aren't my emails sending from CodeIgniter? - php

Question

My codeigniter script will not send emails. I have tested sendmail on xampp with a native PHP email script and it works. This is definitely a problem with CI or my config. The send() function always returns false and the print_debugger() function is always blank. Am I doing something wrong?
<?php
$config = array(
'mailtype' => 'html',
'protocol' => 'smtp',
'smtp_host' => 'smtp.gmail.com',
'smtp_user' => 'myaccount#gmail.com',
'smtp_pass' => '#############',
'smtp_port' => '465'
);
$this->load->library('email', $config);
$this->email->from($this->stg['site_name']);
$this->email->to($this->input->post('email_address'));
$this->email->subject('Your Account Email Has Been Changed');
$data = array(
'activation_code' => $this->member->activation_code
);
$message = $this->load->view('emailTemplates/change_email', $data, true);
$this->email->message($message);
if(!$this->email->send()){
$this->template->overallHeader('Email Failed');
$data = array(
'title' => 'Email Sending Failed',
'message' => 'The system failed to dispatch the email message to your new email address. Because of this, the email address on your account has NOT been changed. '.$this->email->print_debugger()
);
$this->load->view('errorBody', $data);
} else {
//do stuff
}
I have also tried static strings instead of the form input variables as the to and from, etc.