CakeEmail not sending, but no errors - php

Question

I'm pretty new to CakePHP and this is my first attempt setting up an email form.
Keeping the example simple:
<?php
App::uses('AppController', 'Controller');
App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email');
class EmailController extends AppController {
public function send_email($from, $subject, $message) {
$Email = new CakeEmail();
$Email->from($from)
->to('[my personal email]')
->subject($subject);
if($Email->send($message)) {
$result = 'Your email has been sent.';
} else {
$result = 'Your email failed to send.';
}
$this->set('result', $result);
$this->set('params', '('.$from.'|'.$subject.'|'.$message.')');
}
}
send_email.ctp
<?php echo $result;?>
<br>
<?php echo $params;?>
I'm getting "Your email has been sent.", the $params look as I expect, and I am not seeing any errors... but I'm not getting the email. Any idea why this might happen?

Answer 1

Before this you need to define Email configuration in email.php under Config folder
Here we have gmail configuration for example
class EmailConfig {
public $gmail = array(
'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
'port' => 465,
'username' => 'username#gmail.com',
'password' => '*****',
'transport' => 'Smtp'
);
}
then you can use this setting in controller like
$Email= new CakeEmail('gmail');
Inshort you have to configure SMTP according to requirement. I hope this will be handy for you. Thanks