Sending mail with CodeIgniter using SMTP protocol not working

I have a problem in sending mails using CI. I used the "sendmail" protocol to send mail but it is being filtered as spam. I used the SMTP protocol to solve the problem, but it's not getting sent.

My code is as follows:

$config = Array(
    'protocol' => 'smtp',
    'smtp_host' => 'ssl://smtp.googlemail.com',
    'smtp_port' => 465,
    'smtp_user' => '*******@gmail.com',
    'smtp_pass' => '********',
    'mailtype'  => 'html',
    'charset'   => 'iso-8859-1'
);

$this->load->library('email', $config);
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
$message = "test mail";
$this->email->set_newline("\r\n");
$this->email->from('dsiddharth2@gmail.com', 'St. Maries');
$this->email->to("dsiddharth2@gmail.com");
$this->email->subject('Contact - St. Marians Belguam');
$this->email->message($message);
if($this->email->send())
{
    echo "mail sent successfully";
}
else
{
    show_error($this->email->print_debugger());
}

When I send the email using "smtp" protocol in CI, I get the following error:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.googlemail.com:465 (Connection timed out)

Filename: libraries/Email.php

Line Number: 1673

and other list of errors...

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