php - Send mail using codeigniter

By Chirag Patel | Last Updated on : 07 July 2016

Everybody should be send email to every last client. The sending letters needs to accommodate whether client got mail or not. There are characterizes dsn is set True if server is advise gotten mail or not, generally false.

There are necessities to characterizes the host name, client and secret key, port number etc.We must design this esteem in the first place, else, it takes default values as it were. On the off chance that our server is custom then get mistake messages like:

Does not open socket. Your server doesnot configure using this method.

You can change configuration setting in the config file and intialates this config settings.

$config['protocol'] = 'send-mail';
$config['mailpath'] = '/usr/send/sendmail';
$config['charset'] = 'utf8';
$config['wordwrap'] = False;
$this->email->initialize($config);

There are additionally accessible config which is discretionary, it takes values default. We can tweaked mail work utilizing the diffrent values like encryption should be include or not or characterize scorch set like utf-8, iso charset. The prefrences, default esteem, choices are given beneath:

Preference option
Preference	Default Value	Options	Description
useragent	CodeIgniter	None	User Agent Name
Protocol	mail	mail, sendmail, or smtp	Mail Type
mailpath	usr/sbin/sendmail	None	The path save conformation mail report
smtp_host	No Default	None	The host name
smtp_user	No Default	None	User name
smtp_pass	No Default	None	Password of user
smtp_port	25	None	The port Number of port
smtp_timeout	5	None	SMTP timout in seconds. After that SMTP call fail.
smtp_keepalive	FALSE	TRUE or FALSE (boolean)	After sending operation, how much time alive SMTP connections.
smtp_crypto	No Default	tls or ssl	Define security algorithm name
wordwrap	TRUE	TRUE or FALSE (boolean)
wrapchars	76
mailtype	text	text or html	Body content type it is text or html formate
charset	$config['charset']		Character set (utf-8, iso-8859-1, etc.).
validate	FALSE	TRUE or FALSE (boolean)
priority	3	1,2,3,4,5	Email Priority. 1 = highest. 5 = lowest. 3 = normal.
crlf	\n	“\r\n” or “\n” or “\r”	Newline character. (Use “\r\n” to comply with RFC 822).
newline	\n	“\r\n” or “\n” or “\r”	Newline character. (Use “\r\n” to comply with RFC 822).
bcc_batch_mode	FALSE	TRUE or FALSE (boolean)
bcc_batch_size	200	None	Define maximum email send in one batch
dsn	FALSE	TRUE or FALSE (boolean)

Here is a basic example demonstrating how you might send email using default values. Note: This example assumes you are sending the email from one of your controllers.

$this->load->library('email');
$this->email->from('your@example.com', 'Your Name');
$this->email->to('someone@example.com');
$this->email->cc('another@another-example.com');
$this->email->bcc('them@their-example.com');
$this->email->subject('Email Test');
$this->email->message('Testing the email class.');
$this->email->send();