email from localhost via smtp server on codeigniter

Codeigniter smtp email server

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

//SMTP & mail configuration
$config = array(
    'protocol'  => 'smtp',
    'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
    'smtp_port' => 465,
    'smtp_user' => '[email protected]',
    'smtp_pass' => 'gmail_password',
    'mailtype'  => 'html',
    'charset'   => 'utf-8'
);
$this->email->initialize($config);
$this->email->set_mailtype("html");
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");

//Email content
$htmlContent = '<h1>Sending email via SMTP server</h1>';
$htmlContent .= '<p>This email has sent via SMTP server from CodeIgniter application.</p>';

$this->email->to('[email protected]');
$this->email->from('[email protected]','MyWebsite');
$this->email->subject('How to send email via SMTP server in CodeIgniter');
$this->email->message($htmlContent);

//Send email
$this->email->send();

/////////////////////////////$this->load->library('encrypt');///////////to avoid spamming of mail////////////////////////
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