CakeEmail not sending, but no errors

Question

I'm pretty new to CakePHP and this is my first attempt setting up an email form.

Keeping the example simple:

<?php
App::uses('AppController', 'Controller');
App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email');
class EmailController extends AppController {

    public function send_email($from, $subject, $message) {
        $Email = new CakeEmail();
        $Email->from($from)
        ->to('[my personal email]')
        ->subject($subject);
        if($Email->send($message)) {
            $result = 'Your email has been sent.';
        } else {
            $result = 'Your email failed to send.';
        }

        $this->set('result', $result);
        $this->set('params', '('.$from.'|'.$subject.'|'.$message.')');
    }
}

send_email.ctp

<?php echo $result;?>
<br>
<?php echo $params;?>

I'm getting "Your email has been sent.", the $params look as I expect, and I am not seeing any errors... but I'm not getting the email. Any idea why this might happen?

Answer 1

Before this you need to define Email configuration in email.php under Config folder

Here we have gmail configuration for example

class EmailConfig {
    public $gmail = array(
        'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
        'port' => 465,
        'username' => 'username@gmail.com',
        'password' => '*****',
        'transport' => 'Smtp'
    );
}

then you can use this setting in controller like

$Email= new CakeEmail('gmail');

Inshort you have to configure SMTP according to requirement. I hope this will be handy for you. Thanks