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CodeIgniter's Email Class supports the following features:

Multiple Protocols: Mail, Sendmail, and SMTP.
TLS and SSL Encryption for SMTP.
Multiple recipients.
CC and BCCs.
HTML or Plaintext email.
Attachments.
Word wrapping.
Priorities.
BCC Batch Mode, enabling large email lists to be broken into small BCC batches.
Email Debugging tools.

Email Preferences

Preference	Default Value	Options	Description
useragent	CodeIgniter	None	The "user agent".
protocol	mail	mail, sendmail, or smtp	The mail sending protocol.
mailpath	/usr/sbin/sendmail	None	The server path to Sendmail.
smtp_host	No Default	None	SMTP Server Address.
smtp_user	No Default	None	SMTP Username.
smtp_pass	No Default	None	SMTP Password.
smtp_port	25	None	SMTP Port.
smtp_timeout	5	None	SMTP Timeout (in seconds).
smtp_keepalive	FALSE	TRUE or FALSE (boolean)	Enable persistent SMTP connections.
smtp_crypto	No Default	tls or ssl	SMTP Encryption
wordwrap	TRUE	TRUE or FALSE (boolean)	Enable word-wrap.
wrapchars	76		Character count to wrap at.
mailtype	text	text or html	Type of mail. If you send HTML email you must send it as a complete web page. Make sure you don’t have any relative links or relative image paths otherwise they will not work.
charset	`$config['charset']`		Character set (utf-8, iso-8859-1, etc.).
validate	FALSE	TRUE or FALSE (boolean)	Whether to validate the email address.
priority	3	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	Email Priority. 1 = highest. 5 = lowest. 3 = normal.
crlf	n	"rn" or "n" or "r"	Newline character. (Use "rn" to comply with RFC 822).
newline	n	"rn" or "n" or "r"	Newline character. (Use "rn" to comply with RFC 822).
bcc_batch_mode	FALSE	TRUE or FALSE (boolean)	Enable BCC Batch Mode.
bcc_batch_size	200	None	Number of emails in each BCC batch.
dsn	FALSE	TRUE or FALSE (boolean)	Enable notify message from server

Sending an Email

To send an email, first you have to load email library.

$this->load->library('email'); // load email library

$this->email->from('your@example.com', 'Your Name'); // Sets the email address and name of the person sending the email
$this->email->to('someone@example.com'); // Sets the email address(s) of the recipient(s). Can be a single e-mail, a comma-delimited list or an array
$this->email->subject('Email Test'); // Sets the email subject
$this->email->message('Testing the email class.'); // Sets the e-mail message body
$this->email->send(); // e-mail sending method. Returns boolean TRUE or FALSE based on success or failure

Using a text editor, create a controller called Email.php. In it, place this code and save it to your application/controllers/ directory:

<?php 
   class Email extends CI_Controller { 
 
      function __construct() { 
         parent::__construct(); 
         $this->load->library('email'); 
         $this->load->helper('form'); 
      } 
      
      public function index() { 
         $this->load->view('email_form'); 
      } 
  
      public function send_mail() { 
         $to_email = $this->input->post('email'); 
   
         $this->email->from("your@example.com", 'Your Name'); 
         $this->email->to($to_email);
         $this->email->subject('Email Test'); 
         $this->email->message('Testing the email class.'); 
   
         //Send mail 
         if($this->email->send()) 
         $msg = "Email sent successfully."; 
         else 
         $msg = "Error occured during sending email."; 
         $this->load->view('email_form', compact('msg')); 
      } 
   } 
?>

Using a text editor, create a view called email_form.php. In it, place this code and save it to your application/views/ directory:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang = "en">
   <head> 
      <meta charset = "utf-8"> 
      <title>CodeIgniter Email Example</title> 
   </head>
   <body> 
      <?php
         if (isset($msg))    
         echo $msg; 
         echo form_open('/email/send_mail'); 
      ?> 
      <input type="email" name="email" required /> 
      <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> 
      <?php 
         echo form_close(); 
      ?> 
   </body>
</html>

To try your form, visit your site using a URL similar to this one:

http://localhost/codeigniter/index.php/email/index

CodeIgniter Sending Email

Email Preferences

Sending an Email