JMail - Send email in Joomla!

// Send Email
function sendEmail($email_recipient = '', $subject = 'The mail subject goes here...', $body = 'The mail body goes here..')
{
	$mailer = JFactory::getMailer();
	$config = JFactory::getConfig();
	$sender = array($config->get('fromname'), $config->get('mailfrom'));
	$email_recipient = (!empty($email_recipient)) ? $email_recipient : $config->get('mailfrom');
	$mailer->setSender($sender);
	$mailer->setSubject($subject);
	$mailer->isHTML(true);
	$mailer->Encoding = 'base64';
	$mailer->setBody($body);
	$mailer->addRecipient($email_recipient);
	$send = $mailer->Send();
	if ($send !== true):
		mail($email_recipient, "Error sending email:", "Error sending email: ".$send->__toString());
	endif;
}

// How to use the function
sendEmail("your@email.com", "Email subject goes here...", "Body text goes here...");