CodeIgniter unable to send email using PHP mail()

Question

I\'m trying to send an e-mail with Codeigniter like this:

$this->load->library(\'email\');

$this->email->from(\"myemail@email.com\");
$this->         


        

Answer 1

Had the same problem, Make sure your 'from' address is a valid email address.

Answer 2

Its worth saying that if you're on WAMP (Windows) you will need to have sendmail installed otherwise there is no default SMTP method of sending. I wanted to use Gmail but couldn't because there is simply no default mail mechanism.

Answer 3

Be sure domain name in

$this->email->from("myemail@**email.com**");

match to server domain name

Answer 4

Add a protocol variable to the config array and assign it the value "sendmail". The email.php file in the config folder should read as shown below. Mine works like this:

$config['protocol'] = 'sendmail';
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$config['charset']  = 'utf-8';
$config['newline']  = "\r\n";

Answer 5

Ensure that Apache can send emails.

To check your current sendmail status: sestatus -b | grep httpd_can_sendmail

Change it to this if it is off: sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail on

Answer 6

I had the same problem and though it seems silly to me now, I had some of the config array options capitalized when they all need to be lowercase:

was:

$mail_config['smtp_host'] = 'mail.example.com';
$mail_config['smtp_port'] = '587';
$mail_config['smtp_user'] = 'email@example.com';
$mail_config['smtp_pass'] = 'password';
$mail_config['smtp_crypto'] = 'TLS'; //ERROR
$mail_config['protocol'] = 'SMTP'; //ERROR
$mail_config['mailtype'] = 'HTML'; //ERROR
$mail_config['send_multipart'] = FALSE;
$this->email->initialize($mail_config);

Fixed:

$mail_config['smtp_host'] = 'mail.example.com';
$mail_config['smtp_port'] = '587';
$mail_config['smtp_user'] = 'email@example.com';
$mail_config['smtp_pass'] = 'password';
$mail_config['smtp_crypto'] = 'tls'; //FIXED
$mail_config['protocol'] = 'smtp'; //FIXED
$mail_config['mailtype'] = 'html'; //FIXED
$mail_config['send_multipart'] = FALSE;
$this->email->initialize($mail_config);

That worked for me