Unable to send Email Codeigniter

Question

i m trying to send email It properly working on localhost when i live it on server it give me warning i m using codeigniter here is the code

public function send_me($from,$name,$toEmail,$subject,$msg){

    $config = Array(
        'protocol'  => 'smtp',
        'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
        'smtp_port' => 465,
        'smtp_user' => 'xxxxxxxxxxx',//user name herer
        'smtp_pass' => 'xxxxxxxx', //password hre
        'mailtype'  => 'html',
        'charset'   => 'iso-8859-1',
        'wordwrap'  => TRUE
    );
    $this->load->library('email', $config);
    $this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
    $this->email->from($from,$name);
    $this->email->to($toEmail);//to address here
    $this->email->subject($subject);
    $this->email->message($msg);
    if($this->email->send())
        return true;
    else
        return false;
}

and warning are

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.googlemail.com:465 (Connection timed out)

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1689 A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1846

use $this->email->initialize($config); instead of passing it while loading — Muhammad Raheel
simpledo therse steps $this->load->library('email'); then $this->email->initialize($config); because it produces problem while loading and passing togather — Muhammad Raheel
take a look here ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/email.html — Muhammad Raheel
on local it working when i live it it give the same error of the question — Faizan Khattak

Siddiqui Noor Siddiqui Noor · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-02T17:32:56

I have answered several issues like this one. If your local email is working fine then follow the steps below:

To use Google SMTP in CodeIgniter you need to make 2 (two) changes into your Gmail account setting: (N.B. Please be aware that it is now easier for an attacker to break into your account -says Google)

Set off 2-step Verification.

Allow less secure apps: ON (or Enable)

Now use 'smtp_host' as ssl://smtp.gmail.com instead of smtp.googlemail.com

Hope upcoming users can get this help too.

Unable to send Email Codeigniter

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