Codeigniter SMTP Email with Amazon SES

Question

I think yesterday Amazon announced SMTP support for SES (Simple Email Service).

I tried to send SMTP email with Codeigniter with no luck.

I have a verified sende

Answer 1

I also needed to add the line

$config['smtp_crypto']  = 'tls';

to my config array

this is supported by CI 2.1.0 and greater