Codeigniter send html mail

Question

I know - there are already discussions concerning this, but they all didn't help.

All I want is to send a simple html mail - with:

    $this->load->library('email');
    $this->email->from('me@myadress.de', 'My name');
    $this->email->to('me@home.de');
    $this->email->subject('Email Test');
    $this->email->message('test'); # for test only - normally I load a html view
    $this->email->send();

Works fine with the default configuration ( $config['mailtype'] = 'text'; ), but when I change it to $config['mailtype'] = 'html'; - I just get

Unable to send email using PHP mail(). Your server might not be configured to send mail using this method.

The only answers I found was to use SMPT - but I would prefer a solution using sendmail. (I'm pretty sure sendmails supports html mails. ^^)

Any other hints? I've no idea how to debug this... the email-print looks ok to me.

Answer 1

If you want to send an html as a email, please check the below controller file

class Mail extends CI_Controller {

function __construct()
{
    parent::__construct();
    $this->load->helper(array('form', 'url'));
}


    public function index()
{       
    $config = array(
        'protocol' => 'smtp',
        'smtp_host' => 'tls://smtp.gmail.com',
        'smtp_port' => 465,
        'smtp_user' => 'xxx@gmail.com',
        'smtp_pass' => '*********',
        'mailtype'  => 'html',
        'charset'   => 'utf-8'
    );

    $this->load->library('email', $config);
    $this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
    $this->email->from('xxx@gmail.com');

    $this->email->to("yyyy@gmail.com");

    $this->email->subject('Test Email');

    $body = $this->load->view('welcome_message',null,TRUE);

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

    if (!$this->email->send()){
        echo 'fail to load email';
    }
    else {
        echo 'success to send email';
    }
}

}

Where welcome_message is the html view file which you want to send as a mail body