emails not sent from controller

Question

I'm using a custom function in my controller to send emails, but the emails are not being sent.

My code:

function sendestimation()
{
    $jinput = JFactory::getApplication()->input;
    $email = $jinput->get('email');
    $contt = $jinput->get('contt');

    $mailer = JFactory::getMailer();

    $config = JFactory::getConfig();
    $sender = array( 
        $config->get( 'mailfrom' ),
        $config->get( 'fromname' ) 
    );

    $recipient = $email;

    $mailer->addRecipient($recipient);

    $body   = $contt;
    $mailer->isHtml(true);
    $mailer->Encoding = 'base64';
    $mailer->setBody($body);

    $send = $mailer->Send();
    if ( $send !== true ) {
        echo 'Error sending email: ';
    } else {
        echo 'Mail sent';
    }

}

I'm getting:

Error sending email

so the email is not being sent and there is no email sent to my inbox.

I have tried Joomla's send email test and received:

L'e-mail a bien été envoyé à [email protected] utilisant SMTP. Vérifier que vous avez reçu l'e-mail de test.

[The email has been sent to [email protected] using SMTP. Check that you have received the test e-mail.]

Answer 1

The default CMD filter used by Joomla\Input\Input::get() strips out @ character from the email address resulting in invalid address. Use a different filter like STRING to keep the character.

$email = $jinput->get('email', null, 'STRING');