Codeigniter: unable to send email - php

Question

I have a "Contact Us" page, where if users submit the form. Then email should go to the specified email.
After submiting the form i am getting the Success message ,but i am not seeing any email in my inbox/spam.
I am testing on my live server.
Pelase help me to solve my problem.
My code:
<?php
if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
class contact extends CI_Controller {
public function __construct()
{
parent:: __construct();
$this->load->helper('url');
$this->load->helper('form');
$this->load->library('session');
$this->load->library('email');
$this->load->model('shopmodel');
$this->load->model('contactusmodel');
$this->load->library('form_validation');
}
function index()
{
$this->form_validation->set_error_delimiters(' <li class="errorlist">', '</li>')->set_rules('fullname', 'Name','trim|required|min_length[5]|max_length[50]|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_error_delimiters('<li class="errorlist">', '</li>')->set_rules('countryname', 'Country','trim|required|min_length[2]|max_length[50]|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_error_delimiters('<li class="errorlist">', '</li>')->set_rules('email', 'Email', 'trim|required|valid_email');
$this->form_validation->set_error_delimiters('<li class="errorlist">', '</li>')->set_rules('contactdetails', 'Contact Details','trim|required|min_length[40]|max_length[2000]|xss_clean');
$data=$this->contactusmodel->contactusmodel();
$data["query"] = $this->shopmodel->getshopdetailsById(199);//taking data as shop id 199
if($this->form_validation->run() === FALSE)
{
$data['ffullname']['value'] = $this->input->post('fullname');
$data['fcountryname']['value'] =$this->input->post('email');
$data['femail']['value'] = $this->input->post('countryname');
$data['fcontactdetails']['value'] =$this->input->post('contactdetails');
$this->load->view('contact/contact',$data);
}
else if ($this->form_validation->run() === TRUE)
{
$name=$this->input->post('fullname');
$sendersemail=$this->input->post('email');
$fromcountry=$this->input->post('countryname');
$message=$this->input->post('contactdetails');
$config = Array(
'protocol' => 'smtp',
'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
'smtp_port' => 465,
'smtp_user' => 'ashutosh10g#gmail.com',
'smtp_pass' => 'xxxxxxxx',
'mailtype' => 'html',
'charset' => 'utf-8',
'wordwrap' => TRUE
);
$this->load->library('email', $config);
$this->email->set_mailtype("html");
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
$email_body ="<div>hello world</div>";
$this->email->from('ashutosh10g#gmail.com', 'ddd');
$list = array('ashutosh10g#gmail.com');
$this->email->to($list);
$this->email->subject('Testing Email');
$this->email->message($email_body);
$this->email->send();
echo $this->email->print_debugger();
}
else{
$this->load->view('contact/contact',$data);
}
}
}
?>
What output i am getting is:
[code]
Your message has been successfully sent using the following protocol: mail
From: "ddd"
Return-Path:
Reply-To: "ashutosh10g#gmail.com"
X-Sender: ashutosh10g#gmail.com
X-Mailer: CodeIgniter
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-ID: <513e1456185d4#gmail.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="B_ALT_513e1456185e3"
=?utf-8?Q?Testing_Email?=
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Your email application may not support this format.
--B_ALT_513e1456185e3
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
hello world
--B_ALT_513e1456185e3
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<div>hello world</div>
--B_ALT_513e1456185e3--

Answer 1

Maybe you are experimenting a relaying error somtimes the Google Server don't accept relay mail form one MTA to another inbox. Try to test to establish an SMTP dialog to your server an try to send the mail. Here is a simple SMTP dialog example:
http://www.soi.wide.ad.jp/class/20000009/slides/11/6.html
Try to send a mail if the server sends a relay error you should try with another SMTP server. If not maybe is a missconfiguration of your php.
But in my experience gmail always deny the relaying mail for spam and security reasons if the MTA is not a trusted agent.
Another reason may be that you don't have correctly configure DNS Servers and your MTA cannot find the MX Records. Example y your MTA is sendmail it notifies php tha the mail was send succesfully but if you look into sendmail logs you can find that the host is unreachable.