CakePHP emails suddenly stopped working - php

I have been using CakePHP's email class for close to a year now. The system has been sending html emails without problems. Two days ago I received reports that customers were not receiving their notifications. I noticed as well that I wasn't receiving my admin notifications.
My first thought was something changed with my server (hosted by GoDaddy). I do not believe it is my hosting provider as I have tested a php's raw mail() function and even sent a quick text email through CakePHP's class. I also tested each debug mode and error logs, nothing to indicate an error occurred. Here is the code I have been using (successfully) since a couple days ago. This code is the same around 10 times throughout my app.
$Email = new CakeEmail();
$Email->template('order_status_change', 'default')
->emailFormat('html')
->to($order['Order']['email'])
->subject('blah blah ' . $order['Order']['id'] . ' status change: ' . $status['Status']['label'])
->from(array('myemail#gmail.com' => 'blah blah'))
->viewVars(array(
'id' => $order['Order']['id'],
'firstName' => $order['Order']['first_name'],
'statusLabel' => $status['Status']['label'],
'statusDescr' => $status['Status']['description']
))
->send();
A couple things to note:
I have confirmed that the html template 'order_status_change' and
default layout are in the correct folders (they were working before)
I have confirmed that the variables are all correctly set at the
time of email
If I have to switch to text emails I will but I cannot seem to fathom how the code would suddenly stop working. The only thing I have changed is the debug mode (which I have been doing since the beginning).
Update
Emails stopped working again so I switched over to text mail. However for some odd reason when I put a url in the body (like http://www.google.com) the mail fails. However if I remove just the .com then it will go through. What the hell is happening?
Update 2
This is my current config that will send out text emails without links in them (when I say links I mean a url string)
class EmailConfig {
public $godaddy = array(
'transport' => 'Smtp',
'host' => 'relay-hosting.secureserver.net',
'port' => 25,
'timeout' => 300,
'log' => true,
'charset' => 'utf-8',
'headerCharset' => 'utf-8'
);
}
I confirmed that Go Daddy does not need authentication and the port is 25.

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