Issues with Google SMTP and CodeIgniter

Question

I have seen a lot of other people had this issue.

I have setup an email form using the Google Mail server to send the email. This worked on my local machine, but once i put it on the server i get this error

The following SMTP error was encountered: 110 Connection timed out
Unable to send data: AUTH LOGIN
Failed to send AUTH LOGIN command. Error:
Unable to send data: MAIL FROM:

from: 

The following SMTP error was encountered:
Unable to send data: RCPT TO:

to: 

The following SMTP error was encountered:
Unable to send data: DATA

data: 

The following SMTP error was encountered:
Unable to send data: User-Agent: CodeIgniter Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:24:43 +0000

Here is the setup i have in CI

$config = array (
    'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
    'smtp_user' => 'emial',
    'smtp_pass' => 'password',
    'smtp_port' => '465',
    'protocol' => 'smtp',
    'charset'  => 'utf-8',
    'mailtype' => 'html',
    'wordwrap' => TRUE
);

I have tried using both port465 and 587, and both ssl://smtp.googlemail.com and tls://smtp.googlemail.com

Any help getting this working would be great.

You may want to try the solution [posted here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1555145/sending-email-with-gmail-smtp-with-codeigniter-email-library). — Colin Brock, Feb 02 '12 at 17:58
Thanks, but that is what i have, i don't have an issue with fsockopen issue, it something to do with the port possibly. — zizther, Feb 02 '12 at 18:02
I'm unsure how much it matters, but I noticed that the `charset` is different. — Colin Brock, Feb 02 '12 at 18:35
Hi Colin, seems to work if i remove the 'html' it will only send text. Not sure why, but it works... — zizther, Feb 03 '12 at 10:41

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 02 '13 at 21:37

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Add the following line to your email config:

$config['newline'] = "\r\n";

answered Apr 02 '13 at 21:37

WebNovice

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Thanks @WebNovice will note that! – zizther Apr 18 '13 at 11:50

Sigismund · Answer 2 · 2016-06-30T09:09:14.060

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I think it is better if you do not change core files of framework.

In my case

$config['newline'] = "\r\n";

didn't work but adding

$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");

to the method sending an email somehow did the job.

edited Jun 30 '16 at 09:09

answered May 27 '13 at 14:02

Sigismund

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 02 '13 at 19:25

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I was having a similar problem and I was able to send as text by changing $newline in system/libraries/Email.php to \r\n

answered Apr 02 '13 at 19:25

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Thanks @ow3n will note that! – zizther Apr 18 '13 at 11:49

Issues with Google SMTP and CodeIgniter

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