I have the following code that is used to send an email. This works fine on MAMP; but not on LAMP.
$config = [
'crlf' => "\r\n",
'mailtype' => 'html',
'newline' => "\r\n",
'protocol' => 'smtp',
'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtpout.secureserver.net',
'smtp_pass' => 'password',
'smtp_port' => 465,
'smtp_user' => 'username',
'wordwrap' => true,
];
$this->load->library('email', $config);
// Send the email
$this->email->from('email@domain.com', 'Email Name');
$this->email->to('myemail@gmail.com');
$this->email->subject('Subject');
$this->email->message('Message');
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
var_dump($this->email->send());
false is returned from the var_dump call. OpenSSL is installed. I checked my security group settings for this instance and all outbound traffic is enabled.
As I suggest early, I've added an example for Using PHPmailer on Amazon EC2.(Worked/Tested well)
When you use normal mail(aws) you have to pay for it.Read More about Amazon Simple Email Service and How to setup SMTP on EC2
Controller
require_once('./phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php'); # Files attached below
require_once('./phpmailer/class.smtp.php');
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->Username = "someMailAddress@gmail.com";
$mail->Password = "password";
$to = ('to@mail.com');
$subject = 'This is and test mail from PHPMailer';
$message = 'Hi';
$message .= 'this is an mail body';
$mail->SetFrom( 'info@stackoverflow.com' , 'Stack OverFlow' );
$mail->AddAddress( $to , 'Abdulla Nilam' );
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->MsgHTML( $message );
$sendEmail = $mail->Send();
if( $sendEmail == true )
{
$this->session->set_flashdata('success', 'It was sent ....');
redirect('contact');
}
else
{
$this->session->set_flashdata('error', 'Nah :/ something wrong');
redirect('contact');
}