email - SMTP on CodeIgniter shows success, but e-mail is not delivered to Gmail account

Question

I am trying to setup SMTP on CodeIgniter. Everything is working fine and I recieve success message on page, that email is sent without errors. But, email is not delivered.

Here is the code, that I use:

$config = Array(
'protocol' => 'smtp',
'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
'smtp_port' => 465,
'smtp_user' => '[email protected]', 
'smtp_pass' => '***', 
'mailtype' => 'html',
'charset' => 'iso-8859-1',
'wordwrap' => TRUE
);
$this->load->library('email', $config);

$this->email->from('[email protected]', 'Explendid Videos');
$this->email->to('[email protected]');
$this->email->reply_to('[email protected]', 'Explendid Videos');


$this->email->subject('Explendid Video - Contact form');

$message = "Contact form

";
$message .= "Name: ". $_POST['name'] . "
";
$message .= "Phone: ". $_POST['phone'] . "
";
$message .= "Email: ". $_POST['email'] . "
";

$this->email->message($message);

$this->email->send();

What can be the reason, that e-mail is not actually delivered.

Answer 1

Change it to the following:

$ci = get_instance();
$ci->load->library('email');
$config['protocol'] = "smtp";
$config['smtp_host'] = "ssl://smtp.gmail.com";
$config['smtp_port'] = "465";
$config['smtp_user'] = "[email protected]"; 
$config['smtp_pass'] = "yourpassword";
$config['charset'] = "utf-8";
$config['mailtype'] = "html";
$config['newline'] = "
";

$ci->email->initialize($config);

$ci->email->from('[email protected]', 'Blabla');
$list = array('[email protected]');
$ci->email->to($list);
$this->email->reply_to('[email protected]', 'Explendid Videos');
$ci->email->subject('This is an email test');
$ci->email->message('It is working. Great!');
$ci->email->send();