Error while sending an email with CodeIgniter

Question

While sending an email, I'm receiving a bunch of such errors:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: fwrite(): send of 12 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1846

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: fwrite(): send of 39 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1846

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: fwrite(): send of 31 bytes failed with errno=32 Broken pipe

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1846

I have followed the CodeIgniter user guide to configure an SMTP:

$config['protocol']='smtp';  
$config['smtp_host']='ssl0.ovh.net';  
$config['smtp_port']='465';  
$config['smtp_timeout']='10';  
$config['smtp_user']='postmaster%example.com';  
$config['smtp_pass']='password';
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$config['charset'] = 'utf-8';
$config['newline'] = "\r\n";
$config['useragent'] = 'Project';

It seems like the configuration file is just fine, and correct (I've checked the OVH's email configuration files).

Any solution for that?

Answer 1

I too was in the same situation. Was getting:

Message: fwrite(): SSL: Broken pipe</p><p>Filename: libraries/Email.php</p><p>Line Number: 2250&

the change that really made a difference was the 'smtp_crypto' config option set to 'ssl'

$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
$config['smtp_host'] = 'ssl://example.com';
$config['smtp_crypto'] = 'ssl';
$config['smtp_port'] = '465';
$config['smtp_user'] = '[email protected]';
$config['smtp_pass'] = 'password';
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$config['charset'] = 'iso-8859-1';
$config['wordwrap'] = 'TRUE';

I found this solution at https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/email.html by searching for SSL option.