Question

I have seen the same question on this and many other websites but the solutions they gave do not work for me. So i am asking again.

To send mail i wrote the following code

<?php

class Email extends CI_Controller{
function __construct()
{
    parent::__construct();
}

function index()
{
    $config = Array(
        'protocol' => 'smtp',
        'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
        'smtp_port' => 465,
        'username' => '[e-mail]',
        'password' => 'password' 
    );

    $this->load->library('email', $config);
    $this->email->set_newline("\r\n");

    $this->email->from('[e-mail]', 'mymail bcc');
    $this->email->to('[e-mail]');
    $this->email->subject('This is a test email');
    $this->email->message('Oops This is Great.');

    if($this->email->send())
    {
        echo 'Your email was sent';       
    }

    else
    {
        show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
    }
       }
       }

I installed openssl and also uncommented the line extension=php_openssl.dll from php.ini. But i get the following erros

  An Error Was Encountered

   220 mx.google.com ESMTP qp6sm2730344pbc.55

    hello: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [119.30.39.78]
    250-SIZE 35882577
     250-8BITMIME
     250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH
     250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

     from: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
     530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 qp6sm2730344pbc.55

     The following SMTP error was encountered: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn
      more          at          
     530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 qp6sm2730344pbc.55

     to: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
     530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 qp6sm2730344pbc.55

     The following SMTP error was encountered: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. 
     Learn more at 
     530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 qp6sm2730344pbc.55

     data: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at 530 5.5.1 
     http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 qp6sm2730344pbc.55

     The following SMTP error was encountered: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
      530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 qp6sm2730344pbc.55
     502 5.5.1 Unrecognized command. qp6sm2730344pbc.55
     The following SMTP error was encountered: 502 5.5.1 Unrecognized command. qp6sm2730344pbc.55
     Unable to send email using PHP SMTP. Your server might not be configured to send
      mail using this method.

When i use parent::CI_Controller(); i get a fatal error Fatal error: Call to undefined method CI_Controller::CI_Controller() in C:\wamp\www\test\application\controllers\email.php on line 6
Though i am using php 5.4.3

Please let me know what i am missing here.

Answer 1

The built in Mail class uses the key names smtp_user and smtp_pass for smtp credentials.

Change the username and password params in your $config array to smtp_user and smtp_pass.