I was trying to send an email from within my codeigniter project, and the command echo $this->email->print_debugger(); kept returning the following:
220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP q139sm4099547wmd.2 - gsmtp
hello: 250-smtp.gmail.com at your service, [41.228.226.174] 250-SIZE 35882577 250-8BITMIME 250-STARTTLS 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250 SMTPUTF8 Failed to send AUTH LOGIN command. Error: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. q139sm4099547wmd.2 - gsmtp Unable to send email using PHP SMTP. Your server might not be configured to send mail using this method.
so I went back and tried to send email with a simple php code without codeigniter and turns out that the initial problem had nothing to do with codeingiter since I failed again. here is my php code:
<?php
$to = '**********@gmail.com';
$subject = 'Testing sendmail.exe';
$message = 'Hi, you just received an email using sendmail!';
$headers = 'From: ******@gmail.com' . "\r\n" .
'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" .
'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8';
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
echo "Email sent";
else
echo "Email sending failed";
?>
and here is the mail configuration in php.ini and for the record, I tried the following function with the lines smtp_port = 25 and sendmail_from = ********@gmail.com commented (with the initial ";") and without the ";" because I read that suggestion in a forum while trying to solve my problem.
[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = ********@gmail.com
; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
sendmail_path="C:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t -i"
I also tried removing the line sendmail_path=.....
and finally here is my sendmail.ini:
; configuration for fake sendmail
; if this file doesn't exist, sendmail.exe will look for the settings in
; the registry, under HKLM\Software\Sendmail
[sendmail]
; you must change mail.mydomain.com to your smtp server,
; or to IIS's "pickup" directory. (generally C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Pickup)
; emails delivered via IIS's pickup directory cause sendmail to
; run quicker, but you won't get error messages back to the calling
; application.
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
; smtp port (normally 25)
smtp_port=25
; SMTPS (SSL) support
; auto = use SSL for port 465, otherwise try to use TLS
; ssl = alway use SSL
; tls = always use TLS
; none = never try to use SSL
smtp_ssl=
; the default domain for this server will be read from the registry
; this will be appended to email addresses when one isn't provided
; if you want to override the value in the registry, uncomment and modify
default_domain=
; log smtp errors to error.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe)
; uncomment to enable logging
error_logfile=error.log
; create debug log as debug.log (defaults to same directory as sendmail.exe)
; uncomment to enable debugging
debug_logfile=debug.log
; if your smtp server requires authentication, modify the following two lines
auth_username=***********@gmail.com
auth_password=*******************
; if your smtp server uses pop3 before smtp authentication, modify the
; following three lines. do not enable unless it is required.
pop3_server=
pop3_username=
pop3_password=
; force the sender to always be the following email address
; this will only affect the "MAIL FROM" command, it won't modify
; the "From: " header of the message content
force_sender=************@gmail.com
; force the sender to always be the following email address
; this will only affect the "RCTP TO" command, it won't modify
; the "To: " header of the message content
force_recipient=
; sendmail will use your hostname and your default_domain in the ehlo/helo
; smtp greeting. you can manually set the ehlo/helo name if required
hostname=localhost
Any help would be highly appreciated since I have spent over 3 days trying to solve this problem to no avail.
edit: the second code indeed returns "Email sent" but I can't find it anywhere not even in the spam. and yes I have configured gmail to" allow less secure apps"
