Sending SMTP Email with a PHP Script Hosted on Hostgator Servers

Question

I created the web application as such in the application that I need to send in order to send users their passwords if they forgot them. Now I am using a gmail account to send email. When I send an email locally from my machine using XAMPP, everything works fine and it delivers as expected. When I try to put a php script on the Hostgator server and try to send my password to the user, I cannot. But the reason I think this is happening is because Gmail will immediately send me the following:

Someone recently used your password to try to sign in to your Google Account [e-mail]. This person was using an application such as an email client or mobile device. 

We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt: 

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:42:56 PM UTC 
IP Address: 198.57.247.245 (gator3281.hostgator.com.) 
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA


If you do not recognize this sign-in attempt, someone else might be trying to access your account. You should sign in to your account and reset your password immediately

Based on this letter, I would suggest that Gmail is touchy, that the host server is trying to send an email through them. My problem is that I do not know how to fix this problem (this is my first time when I do something like this). As such, I used a PHP framework called codeigniter, and here is the code used to send email (note that this code works more than fine locally, that is, I don’t think that something is wrong with the code):

public function SendEmailValidate($email,$subject,$message,$type)
    {
        $config = array(
                        'protocol' => 'smtp',
                        'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
                        'smtp_port' => 465,
                        'smtp_user' => '[e-mail]',
                        'smtp_pass' => 'mypassword',
                        'smtp_timeout' => 30,
                        'mailtype' => $type
                        );
        $CI = &get_instance();

        $CI->load->library('email',$config);
        $CI->email->set_newline("\r\n");
        $CI->email->from('[e-mail]','Book Bay');
        $CI->email->to($email);
        $CI->email->subject($subject);
        $CI->email->message($message);

        if($CI->email->send())
        {
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

Any help on this will really help, thanks

Answer 1

it in gmail settings; You need to allow your website to send emails;

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