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copied!<p>I have some problems, meaning that I don't receive mail from a form...</p> <p>the code looks like this: </p> <pre><code>public function send_email(){ $this->load->library("form_validation"); $this->form_validation->set_rules("fullName", "Full Name", "required|alpha|xss_clean"); $this->form_validation->set_rules("email", "Email Address", "required|valid_email|xss_clean"); $this->form_validation->set_rules("message", "Message", "required|xss_clean"); if($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE){ $data["message"] = ""; $this->load->view("site_header"); $this->load->view("site_nav"); $this->load->view("content_comment", $data); $this->load->view("site_footer"); }else{ $data["message"] = "The email was successfully been sent!"; $this->load->library("email"); $this->email->from(set_value("email"), set_value("fullName")); $this->email->to("paulharbuz@gmail.com"); $this->email->subject("Message from our form"); $this->email->message(set_value("message")); $this->email->send(); echo $this->email->print_debugger(); $this->load->view("site_header"); $this->load->view("site_nav"); $this->load->view("content_comment", $data); $this->load->view("site_footer"); } } </code></pre> <p>And i get an error that looks like this:</p> <blockquote> <p>Unable to send email using PHP mail(). Your server might not be configured to send mail using this method.** </p> </blockquote> <p>Is this from my php.ini file? </p> <p>i've set my files reading this part on <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php</a></p> <p>i found the solution: create a file in config: email.php that looks like this</p> <pre><code><?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed'); /* | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | EMAIL CONFING | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Configuration of outgoing mail server. | */ $config['wordwrap'] = FALSE; $config['mailtype'] = 'html'; $config['crlf'] = '\r\n'; $config['charset']='utf-8'; $config['newline']="\r\n"; $config['priority']=1; $config['protocol']='smtp'; $config['smtp_host']='ssl://smtp.googlemail.com'; $config['smtp_port']='465'; $config['smtp_timeout']='30'; $config['smtp_user']='gcc.sandbox@gmail.com'; $config['smtp_pass']='qwaszx12'; $config['newline']="\r\n"; /* End of file email.php */ /* Location: ./system/application/config/email.php */ </code></pre> <p>then load this in your main controller like: <code>$this->email->initialize($this->config->config);</code> and that's it! </p>

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