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I have the following to send an email

if($this->form_validation->run())
    {
        $data = $this->input->post();
        $this->load->library('email');
        $this->email->from('[email protected]', 'Joe Dev');
        $this->email->reply_to('[email protected]', 'Joe Dev');
        $this->email->to('[email protected]'); 
        $this->email->cc('[email protected]');

        $this->email->subject('Email Test');
        $this->email->message('I used this firstname: '. $data['fname']);   

        $this->email->send();

        $config['charset'] = 'iso-8859-1';
        $config['smtp_host'] = 'mail.google.com';
        $config['smtp_user'] = '[email protected]';
        $config['smtp_pass'] = 'mypassword';

        $this->email->initialize($config);
    }

where $this->email->to() is my webmail account, it delivers the message successfully but it has failed for every gmail account I tried sending it to. What may be the problem?

nanobash
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Joseph Rex
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  • Use `echo $this->email->print_debugger();`, secondly, use `smtp.gmail.com` as the `smtp_host`; thirdly, is it that you are setting the email settings **after** you sent the email? Lastly, do check this link: [**Sending gmail smtp Codeiginter SO Question**](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1555145/sending-email-with-gmail-smtp-with-codeigniter-email-library?rq=1) – MackieeE Mar 21 '14 at 16:54
  • I was placing the settings after the email->send() but I corrected that now. I also changed the SMTP and it's still the same. It works perfectly for my webmail – Joseph Rex Mar 21 '14 at 17:05
  • Are you sure its not sending at all? I have found alot of my emails form unrecognised sources in my spam / junk folder in gmail. – RaggaMuffin-420 Mar 21 '14 at 17:13

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You have to initialize the email library before using $this->email->send(). So the corrected code will be:

    if($this->form_validation->run())
        {
            $data = $this->input->post();
            $this->load->library('email');
            $this->email->from('[email protected]', 'Joe Dev');
            $this->email->reply_to('[email protected]', 'Joe Dev');
            $this->email->to('[email protected]'); 
            $this->email->cc('[email protected]');
            $this->email->subject('Email Test');
            $this->email->message('I used this firstname: '. $data['fname']); 
            $config['charset'] = 'iso-8859-1';
            $config['smtp_host'] = 'mail.google.com';
            $config['smtp_user'] = '[email protected]';
            $config['smtp_pass'] = 'mypassword';
            $this->email->initialize($config);
            $this->email->send();
        }

Hope this helps!

Hammad
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  • I get even more errors by doing that. My code was working but it was just not working with gmail accounts. Now I get "Undefined Index: Form" from the email library by using yours – Joseph Rex Mar 22 '14 at 11:24