Fixing localhost email on CodeIgniter under Windows

Argh. After spending a LOT of agonizing hours trying to get localhost email to work under CodeIgniter (PHP) on my Windows 7 machine, I finally figured it out. And since this is such a non-intuitive fix, hopefully I can ease the pain for someone else by sharing this.

Setup:

• Using XAMPP + CodeIgniter
• I had my email.php configured as very standard for localhost
• $config['protocol']  = 'smtp';
• $config['smtp_host'] = 'localhost';
• $config['smtp_port'] = '25';
• $config['smtp_timeout']='10';

Issue:

• My PHP code kept hanging in "$this->email->send()" giving me a "waiting for localhost".
• In my php_error_log I had "Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded in [stuff]\system\libraries\Email.php on line 1869

Resolution:

• Turns out that you need to specify the newlines on Windows
• Simply update your email.php to include:
• $config['newline'] = "\r\n";
• $config['crlf'] = "\r\n";
• Some additional details at the end of this thread http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/184596/

That's it.
Nifty