codeigniter - How do I format an email for Gmail? -

I am using the built in email in the library, whatever I am trying to do, it sends a bold string But instead of render tags, it is printing them what I have:

That is, the character for the character, why am I getting email tags not rendering?

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  $ Config ['protocol'] = ' Sendmail '; $ Config ['Mailpath'] = '/ usr / sbin / sendmail'; $ Config ['charset'] = 'iso-8859-1'; $ Config ['wordwrap'] = true; $ Config ['mailtype'] = 'html'; $ This- & gt; Email-> Start ($ config);  

CodeIgniter email class default to sending text emails. Unless you specify that mail-type HTML ( $ config ['mailtype'] = 'html'; ) your HTML will be sent as text.