diff --git a/system/libraries/Email.php b/system/libraries/Email.php
index cd89f8f..9b3bc75 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Email.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Email.php
@@ -405,12 +405,12 @@
 	/**
 	 * Add a Header Item
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	private function _set_header($header, $value)
+	protected function _set_header($header, $value)
 	{
 		$this->_headers[$header] = $value;
 	}
@@ -420,11 +420,11 @@
 	/**
 	 * Convert a String to an Array
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	array
 	 */
-	private function _str_to_array($email)
+	protected function _str_to_array($email)
 	{
 		if ( ! is_array($email))
 		{
@@ -577,10 +577,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Set Message Boundary
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	private function _set_boundaries()
+	protected function _set_boundaries()
 	{
 		$this->_alt_boundary = "B_ALT_".uniqid(''); // multipart/alternative
 		$this->_atc_boundary = "B_ATC_".uniqid(''); // attachment boundary
@@ -591,10 +591,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Get the Message ID
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _get_message_id()
+	protected function _get_message_id()
 	{
 		$from = $this->_headers['Return-Path'];
 		$from = str_replace(">", "", $from);
@@ -608,11 +608,11 @@
 	/**
 	 * Get Mail Protocol
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @param	bool
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _get_protocol($return = TRUE)
+	protected function _get_protocol($return = TRUE)
 	{
 		$this->protocol = strtolower($this->protocol);
 		$this->protocol = ( ! in_array($this->protocol, $this->_protocols, TRUE)) ? 'mail' : $this->protocol;
@@ -628,11 +628,11 @@
 	/**
 	 * Get Mail Encoding
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @param	bool
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _get_encoding($return = TRUE)
+	protected function _get_encoding($return = TRUE)
 	{
 		$this->_encoding = ( ! in_array($this->_encoding, $this->_bit_depths)) ? '8bit' : $this->_encoding;
 
@@ -655,10 +655,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Get content type (text/html/attachment)
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _get_content_type()
+	protected function _get_content_type()
 	{
 		if	($this->mailtype == 'html' &&  count($this->_attach_name) == 0)
 		{
@@ -683,10 +683,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Set RFC 822 Date
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _set_date()
+	protected function _set_date()
 	{
 		$timezone = date("Z");
 		$operator = (strncmp($timezone, '-', 1) == 0) ? '-' : '+';
@@ -701,10 +701,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Mime message
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _get_mime_message()
+	protected function _get_mime_message()
 	{
 		return "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.".$this->newline."Your email application may not support this format.";
 	}
@@ -802,10 +802,10 @@
 	 * If the user hasn't specified his own alternative message
 	 * it creates one by stripping the HTML
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _get_alt_message()
+	protected function _get_alt_message()
 	{
 		if ($this->alt_message != "")
 		{
@@ -941,11 +941,11 @@
 	/**
 	 * Build final headers
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _build_headers()
+	protected function _build_headers()
 	{
 		$this->_set_header('X-Sender', $this->clean_email($this->_headers['From']));
 		$this->_set_header('X-Mailer', $this->useragent);
@@ -959,10 +959,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Write Headers as a string
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	private function _write_headers()
+	protected function _write_headers()
 	{
 		if ($this->protocol == 'mail')
 		{
@@ -994,10 +994,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Build Final Body and attachments
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	private function _build_message()
+	protected function _build_message()
 	{
 		if ($this->wordwrap === TRUE  AND  $this->mailtype != 'html')
 		{
@@ -1177,12 +1177,12 @@
 	 * Prepares string for Quoted-Printable Content-Transfer-Encoding
 	 * Refer to RFC 2045 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @param	integer
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _prep_quoted_printable($str, $charlim = '')
+	protected function _prep_quoted_printable($str, $charlim = '')
 	{
 		// Set the character limit
 		// Don't allow over 76, as that will make servers and MUAs barf
@@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@
 	 * @param	bool	// set to TRUE for processing From: headers
 	 * @return	str
 	 */
-	private function _prep_q_encoding($str, $from = FALSE)
+	protected function _prep_q_encoding($str, $from = FALSE)
 	{
 		$str = str_replace(array("\r", "\n"), array('', ''), $str);
 
@@ -1440,10 +1440,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Unwrap special elements
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	void
 	 */
-	private function _unwrap_specials()
+	protected function _unwrap_specials()
 	{
 		$this->_finalbody = preg_replace_callback("/\{unwrap\}(.*?)\{\/unwrap\}/si", array($this, '_remove_nl_callback'), $this->_finalbody);
 	}
@@ -1453,10 +1453,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Strip line-breaks via callback
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _remove_nl_callback($matches)
+	protected function _remove_nl_callback($matches)
 	{
 		if (strpos($matches[1], "\r") !== FALSE OR strpos($matches[1], "\n") !== FALSE)
 		{
@@ -1471,10 +1471,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Spool mail to the mail server
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	private function _spool_email()
+	protected function _spool_email()
 	{
 		$this->_unwrap_specials();
 
@@ -1516,10 +1516,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Send using mail()
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	private function _send_with_mail()
+	protected function _send_with_mail()
 	{
 		if ($this->_safe_mode == TRUE)
 		{
@@ -1553,10 +1553,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Send using Sendmail
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	private function _send_with_sendmail()
+	protected function _send_with_sendmail()
 	{
 		$fp = @popen($this->mailpath . " -oi -f ".$this->clean_email($this->_headers['From'])." -t", 'w');
 
@@ -1591,10 +1591,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Send using SMTP
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	private function _send_with_smtp()
+	protected function _send_with_smtp()
 	{
 		if ($this->smtp_host == '')
 		{
@@ -1660,11 +1660,11 @@
 	/**
 	 * SMTP Connect
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _smtp_connect()
+	protected function _smtp_connect()
 	{
 		$this->_smtp_connect = fsockopen($this->smtp_host,
 										$this->smtp_port,
@@ -1687,12 +1687,12 @@
 	/**
 	 * Send SMTP command
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _send_command($cmd, $data = '')
+	protected function _send_command($cmd, $data = '')
 	{
 		switch ($cmd)
 		{
@@ -1754,10 +1754,10 @@
 	/**
 	 *  SMTP Authenticate
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	private function _smtp_authenticate()
+	protected function _smtp_authenticate()
 	{
 		if ( ! $this->_smtp_auth)
 		{
@@ -1808,10 +1808,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Send SMTP data
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	bool
 	 */
-	private function _send_data($data)
+	protected function _send_data($data)
 	{
 		if ( ! fwrite($this->_smtp_connect, $data . $this->newline))
 		{
@@ -1829,10 +1829,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Get SMTP data
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _get_smtp_data()
+	protected function _get_smtp_data()
 	{
 		$data = "";
 
@@ -1854,10 +1854,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Get Hostname
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _get_hostname()
+	protected function _get_hostname()
 	{
 		return (isset($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])) ? $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] : 'localhost.localdomain';
 	}
@@ -1867,10 +1867,10 @@
 	/**
 	 * Get IP
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _get_ip()
+	protected function _get_ip()
 	{
 		if ($this->_IP !== FALSE)
 		{
@@ -1933,11 +1933,11 @@
 	/**
 	 * Set Message
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _set_error_message($msg, $val = '')
+	protected function _set_error_message($msg, $val = '')
 	{
 		$CI =& get_instance();
 		$CI->lang->load('email');
@@ -1957,11 +1957,11 @@
 	/**
 	 * Mime Types
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
+	 * @access	protected
 	 * @param	string
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	private function _mime_types($ext = "")
+	protected function _mime_types($ext = "")
 	{
 		$mimes = array(	'hqx'	=>	'application/mac-binhex40',
 						'cpt'	=>	'application/mac-compactpro',