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Asked: 2026-05-21T12:41:59+00:00

I’m trying to use the Sending a basic message code from here to send

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I’m trying to use the “Sending a basic message” code from here to send an email:
http://book.cakephp.org/view/1283/Email#!/view/1286/Sending-a-basic-message

The code appears to work but I never receive the email (I’ve verified that the email address is valid). I haven’t configured an email server anywhere in PHP, but the instructions make no mention of that. Here’s the output when I set 

 $this->Email->delivery = 'debug';

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To: Somebody Else 
From: Somebody 
Subject: Test
Header:

From: Somebody  
Message-ID: <4daa65cd-beb8-4bf6-8cec-1dc07b5e5e4c@localhost>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:00:13 -0600
X-Mailer: CakePHP Email Component
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitParameters:

Message:

Hello message body!
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  1. Editorial Team

    opike,

    if you use the debug setting, then you are not sending an email, but rather displaying it.
    See here.

    For a proper setup, see here. So you do not need a MTA like exim or sendmail configured, but rather use your ISP (aka (here), your normal email address) to do the work.

    Edit0:
    And you definitly set it up like the book dictates?:

       /* SMTP Options, !with the settings of your ISP substituted in! */
   $this->Email->smtpOptions = array(
        'port'=>'465', 
        'timeout'=>'30',
        'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
        'username'=>'your_username@gmail.com',
        'password'=>'your_gmail_password',
   );
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