Sending emails with CakePHP not works using CakeEmail and also SwiftMailer - php

Question

I'm trying to send emails from CakePHP but without success. I'm trying with CakeEmail and this code:
$email = new CakeEmail();
$email->from(array('reynierpm#gmail.com' => __('Recruitment Job App')))
->to('reynierpm#gmail.com')
->subject(__('Recruitment Status Update'))
->send(__('Dear, ReynierPM this is a testing email'));
And doesn't work because no emails is send. The file /app/Config/email.php have this configuration:
class EmailConfig {
public $default = array(
'transport' => 'Debug',
'host' => 'smtp.gmail.com',
'port' => 25,
'timeout' => 30,
'username' => 'mlrepemi#gmail.com',
'password' => 'secret_password',
'charset' => 'utf-8',
'headerCharset' => 'utf-8',
);
}
I've try also this http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/sky_l3ppard/2009/11/07/updated-swiftmailer-4-xx-component-with-attachments-and-plugins but in this case I get this error:
Fatal error: Class 'testemailView' not found in /var/www/html/jobapp/app/Controller/Component/swift_mailer.php on line 245
I'm using CakePHP 2.0.6 and SwiftMailer 4.1.5, any help?
Cheers and thanks in advance

Answer 1

You are leaving out some important parts to enable email. You should have something like this:
App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email');
$email = new CakeEmail('default');
Then in your email.php config, your default configuration for gmail should looke like this:
public $default = array(
'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
'port' => 465,
'timeout' => 30,
'username' => 'my#gmail.com',
'password' => 'secret',
'transport' => 'Smtp'
);