sending email using cakephp via smtp

Question

i got a code working for sending basic email. but for smtp, i could not perfect this:

        function send(){

            $this->Email->smtpOptions = array(
                'port'=>'465', 
                'timeout'=>'30',
                'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
                'username'=>'csorila@gmail.com',
                'password'=>'mypassword',
           );

        $this->Email->delivery='smtp';

            $this->Email->send = 'debug';

            $this->Email->to = 'csorila17@gmail.com'; 
        $this->Email->subject = 'hurrah'; 
//        $this->Email->replyTo = 'noreply@example.com'; 
        $this->Email->from = 'Charmaine Khay Sorila<noreply@example.com>'; 
        //$this->Email->send('Here is the body of the email Chams Email Test');
        //Set the body of the mail as we send it. 
        //Note: the text can be an array, each element will appear as a 
        //seperate line in the message body. 

        if ( $this->Email->send() ) { 
            $this->Session->setFlash('Simple email sent'); 
        } else { 
            $this->Session->setFlash('Simple email not sent'); 
            $this->set('smtp_errors', $this->Email->smtpError);
        } 
        }

    }

i got this working without $this->Email->delivery='smtp';, but when i added that line, no email can be sent at all :(

Answer 1

If you do not want to actually send an email and instead want to test out the functionality, you can use the following delivery option:

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$this->Email->delivery = 'debug';