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XLIX. Mail Funktionen
Die mail() Funktionen erlauben das Versenden von Mail. - Inhaltsverzeichnis
- ezmlm_hash -- Calculate the hash value needed by EZMLM
- mail -- Sende Mail
User Contributed Notes
Mail Funktionen |
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10-Nov-2001 09:35 |
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For Windows users, you can likely set the SMTP directive in the php.ini
configuration file to your isp's SMTP mail server - the same as you use
for outgoing mail in your email client (Eudora, Outlook, etc.) . However,
check with your ISP before doing this!
eg
SMTP =
mail.your_isp.com
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rossgerring at yahoo dot com
31-Jan-2002 03:26 |
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the 'sendmail_from' string is the default 'from' address supplied with any
outgoing mail if no other 'from' address has been supplied in the header
section of the mail() function. In other words, setting the 'from' address
in the mail() function overrides this setting.
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lordkai at gmx dot net
23-Feb-2002 12:03 |
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Check out Zend.com's code gallery under EMAIL, look for SMTP.
with
the new class you can specify different hosts (with respective l/p)
anytime you wish.
good for guys who hasn't got the mail() enabled
(i think) but can at least open sockets.
again, i'm green at this,
might be incorrect.
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drtebi at yahoo dot com
03-Apr-2002 05:58 |
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Hi there,
here is a little snippet that can be used in your mail script
in order to check if the mail was really sent from the domain the message
originated from:
// array for allowed domains (lower case
please)
$referers = array('php.net', 'www.php.net',
'us2.php.net');
// add upper case referrers
$size =
sizeof($referers);
for($i = 0; $i < $size; $i++){
$referers[] =
strtoupper($referers[$i]);
}
// check referers
for($i = 0; $i
< sizeof($referers); $i++){
if(substr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_REFERER'], 7, strlen($referers[$i])) ==
$referers[$i]){
$bad_referer = FALSE;
break;
}
else{
$bad_referer = TRUE;
}
}
if($bad_referer){
header('Location: );
exit;
}
I added the upper case domains, since once in a while
surfers tend to write in all-caps.
Hope that helps someone
:-)
DrTebi
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gory at alphasoft-bg dot com
05-Apr-2002 02:28 |
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Linux
Known situation mail() not work, but why ???
Try send a
simple mail from shell
root@alpha:~# sendmail [email protected]
strange
error ???
collect: Cannot write ./dfg35A7vav022304 (bfcommit,
uid=XXX, gid=XXX): Permission denied
queueup: cannot create queue
temp file ./tfg35A7vav022304, uid=XXX: Permission denied
Don't mess
with permissons on /var/spool
/var/mail /var/spool/mqueue
Just set
them follow the instructions from sendmail readme
It seems that when
sendmail runs not like a daemon ( without -bd or -bD options ) it doesn't
use corect QueueDirectory from /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
The solution
is
set this line in php.ini
;For Unix only.You may supply
arguments as well (default:'sendmail -t
-i').
sendmail_path="/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue/"
That's all. mail() now
work fine :)))
Hope this will save up somebody's time, because i spent
a lot of hours in digging and tearing my hair (and my mother will colapse
if she hear what a words i use :)))
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12-Apr-2002 03:35 |
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As noted above sendmail_from is only used on MS Windows, to change the
default sender on unix you must add -f to sendmail_path. For example in a
<VirtualHost> directive:
php_admin_value sendmail_path
"/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f [email protected]"
would
set the default return-path for mail from that virtual host.
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php at driekeerkiwi dot nl
20-May-2002 09:21 |
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Dear all,
Setting up a system which will ask a new member to
confirm he asked for it
by mailing him I experienced a problem. If a
new member fills in a Hotmail
e-mailaddress he will receive my mail in
his Junk Mail directory.
Many tips I found where telling te
configure the php.ini on my server but
that is not enough. I use
Apache on a Win32 so some things will be different
for you Linux
people but the problems I experienced do not have anything to
do with
that I believe.
But, configure your php.ini setting the mail
functions, for Win32:
SMTP = mail.yourisp.com
sendmail_from =
[email protected]
Now the most important.
When using
mail() you should insert headers, and not just a few!!!
I give you an
example I'm using.
Very important is also to include the ' To: '
header. I forgot this and when
I put it in my code Hotmail didn't
refuse my e-mails anymore. Only when
people have there Junk Mail
listed as "Exclusive". But when configured
"High"
it will go ok.
Here the example:
$myname = "Me
Myself";
$myemail =
"[email protected]";
$contactname = "Mister
Contact";
$contactemail =
"[email protected]";
$message = "hello from happy
me";
$subject = "A mail not refused by
Hotmail";
$headers .= "MIME-Version:
1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From:
".$myname."
<".$myemail.">\r\n";
$headers .= "To:
".$contactname."
<".$contactemail.">\r\n";
$headers .=
"Reply-To: ".$myname."
<$myreplyemail>\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority:
1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority:
High\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Just My
Server";
mail($contactemail, $subject, $message,
$headers);
I hope this helped someone.
Godfried van
Loo
The Netherlands
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smichels at intradat dot com
26-May-2002 02:30 |
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mail will NOT work if your system doesn't have
a /bin/sh (like in
chroots...)
just take some time to figure it out ;)
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29-May-2002 01:15 |
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I use qmail, and have found that mail() will return TRUE even if there is
no valid email address in the To parameter. If you're having problems
getting mail() to work with qmail, double-check that the output from your
script produces a valid email message before looking further!
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lanky at lankyland dot com
03-Jun-2002 04:11 |
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i have noticed that the mail() doesnt work if you define some headers in a
variable ($headers) and also within the mail( ..here.. ). this causes a
conflict for some reason
example...
$headers = "MIME/TYPE
blah blah blah";
$headers = "Cc:
[email protected]";
mail("$headers", "From:
[email protected]");
i hope this helps
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aharradine at skychannel dot com dot au
06-Jun-2002 03:50 |
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use these headers to send in html form
$headers =
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
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sergiopaternoster at tiscali dot it
12-Jun-2002 04:07 |
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If you have downloaded an email via POP connection, ex.:
$complete_email
="
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:18:47 -0400
From: "Sergio
Paternoster" <[email protected]>
To: "My
Users" <[email protected]>
Subject: Hello from
Sergio!
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello
from Sergio!
";
and want to forward it to another email
address, just change the To: field into the encoded downloaded email and
then use
mail("", "",
"",$To_changed_complete_email);
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mjt at jpeto dot net
26-Jun-2002 03:08 |
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If some of your mails cannot be received by some people, you might have the
following problem:
Some mailservers block messages with more than
1024 Characters in a single line.
Solution: just add a simple
linebreak (\n) after the last space before each character 1024
You
could possibly use wordwrap() for this...
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daevid at daevid dot com
11-Jul-2002 12:35 |
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in the excellent 'header' example:
[email protected]
20-May-2002
02:21
I find it better to use:
mail("", $subject,
$message, $headers);
because you are already setting the TO: in the
headers. If you put the $contactemail, you will see two names on the TO
line on the email separated by ;
also, if it's not painfully
obvious, use:
"Content-type: text/plain"
to get regular
text vs. html text.
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11-Jul-2002 08:06 |
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Took some digging to find how to set the mail server port number as the
typist of the documention above forgot to finish typing the Mail
Configuration Directive "smtp_port".
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feathern at yahoo dot com
09-Aug-2002 06:29 |
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Solution to massmailing timeout:
Unsafe solution is to change the
timeout properties in php.ini
The better solution is to create separate
email object run through window command prompt (in windows) or separate
shell function (in unix) that will run itself separately until
termination.
[I found php to run faster in a shell/command prompt]
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redy dot r at NOSPAMmadagascan dot com
16-Aug-2002 11:46 |
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If you need to send an e-mail with an html content and the same e-mail have
Bcc headers.
Place the Bcc (and why not also Cc) at the end of your
additional headers. Otherwise, people receiving the email in copy may have
the html code in their screen. The one who are designed as main recipient
will not have this problem.
Explanation :
=========
The
e-mail headers are broken when the PHP parser delete the Bcc line (Removed
cause hidden, obvious !).
Example :
=======
This is
bad
$header = "From:
\"".addslashes($sender_name)."\"
<".$sender_email.">\r\n";
$header .=
"Reply-To: ".$sender_email."\r\n";
$header .=
"Cc: ".$other_email."\r\n";
$header .=
"Bcc: ".$another_email."\r\n";
$header .=
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type:
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .=
"X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP /
".phpversion()."\r\n";
The following is
good
$header = "From:
\"".addslashes($sender_name)."\"
<".$sender_email.">\r\n";
$header .=
"Reply-To: ".$sender_email."\r\n";
$header .=
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type:
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .=
"X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP /
".phpversion()."\r\n";
$header .= "Cc:
".$other_email."\r\n";
$header .= "Bcc:
".$another_email."\r\n";
Sorry for my bad english.
:-)
Redy Ramamonjisoa
<[email protected]>
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no dot grstarrett at spam dot cox dot net
19-Aug-2002 07:43 |
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I had a problem with the outgoing email from PHP: The emails were going OUT
but not being recieved by SOME users.
Specifically, users with
accounts within my own ISP were fine (COX.NET), my .NAME account was OK,
and others. AOL users got NOTHING as well as some other users.
The
problem was was with PHP.INI settings. Notice the default
setting:
sendmail_from = [email protected] ; for Win32
only
This affects the "return path" header (on my system
anyway) REGARDLESS of the From header entry. Apparently some anti-spam
filters look at the return path to see if it is legit and, if not, drop
the message.
If you leave this as is it will work fine... for SOME
mail transports, but not all!! For it to work properly, I had to configure
it to be an email address within the domain of my ISP. Note that I also
have the SMTP server set to my ISP's main outgoing SMTP server.
Apparently, any address will work as long as it is properly formatted and
from the domain of the SMTP server.
My setting now reads similar
to:
sendmail_from = [email protected] ; for Win32 only
I
haven't verified it works in all cases, but it works at least for AOL. I'm
fairly confident it will work for all my users, I'll try to remember to
post more info if I find out anything else.
BTW: I didn't have to
change the \r to \r\n with my configuration (XP/IIS5), but I have had
trouble with that in other platforms (e.g. NT4/IIS4). You might want to
look at that as well.
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bschwaegerl at zen-works dot de
21-Aug-2002 03:11 |
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This is an example 4 sending german umlaute - but it works 4 other special
character settings,
2.
mail("[email protected]","Subject",
"Content",
"Mime-Version:1.0\nContent-Type:
text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\nContent-Transfer-Encoding:
8bit\"");
Regards,
Dipl.Inf. (FH) Bernd
Schwaegerl
Mueller-Knoche GmbH, Systemhaus fuer EDV-Loesungen
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a dot deak at anicon dot de
23-Aug-2002 01:13 |
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When you got a "Server Error" you not allowed to send a EMail
with you return address or to a specified EMail address.
Test it
with "telnet (smtp server) smtp" and you get a 550 Relaying is
prohibited Error.
regards
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stevenlim at Edinburgh-Consulting dot com
06-Sep-2002 07:53 |
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How to detect a bounce email
1. make sure the email you send out
have the header
"Return-Path:
[email protected]\r\n",
&
"Return-Receipt-To:
[email protected]\r\n"
2. setup this detect-bounce mail
account at your mail server
3. redirect the incoming mail from this
email account to your php script (check your mail server doc on how do
this)
4. your php script will then be able to process the incoming
email in whatever way you like, including to detect bounce mail message
(use regexp search).
Note that the mail will be not be store after
the mail server has redirect to your script. If you want to store it, you
need additional code in your script
Hope the above
help
Steven Lim
IT Consultant (www.Edinburgh-Consulting.com)
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pvlasenko at hotmail dot com dot com
28-Sep-2002 10:04 |
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If you find your self struggling with mail() function like I was you might
want to send mail directly from your mailer and not through the mail()
function. I was having hard time sending long(registration confirmation)
messages with simple mail() function on Linux. My solution...
//
Configuration
$announce_subject = "Message From Our Web
Site";
$announce_from_email =
"[email protected]";
$announce_from_name = "Our
Site";
$announce_to_email =
"[email protected]";
$body = "Announcement. Our site
has a special offer today. Please visit. Thank you.";
$MP =
"/usr/sbin/sendmail -t";
$spec_envelope = 1;
// Access
Sendmail
// Conditionally match envelope
address
if($spec_envelope)
{
$MP .= " -f
$announce_from_email";
}
$fd = popen($MP,"w");
fputs($fd, "To: $announce_to_email\n");
fputs($fd,
"From: $announce_from_name
<$announce_from_email>\n");
fputs($fd, "Subject:
$announce_subject\n");
fputs($fd, "X-Mailer: PHP4\n");
fputs($fd, $body);
pclose($fd);
Hope this helps
you.
Pavel Vlasenko
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zombie at localm dot org
29-Sep-2002 08:45 |
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Note that in the above example of using sendmail that there must be a new
line (\n) before the body starts. I scratched my head for a bit on this
one. The messages were sending (even to aol) but the messages were blank,
so i added the new line and it worked. The above example is much
appriciated, thankyou thankyou.
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pvlasenko at hotmail dot com
01-Oct-2002 02:20 |
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I had trouble sending emails with mail()function some peple would get the
emails then other would not, I had partialy solved this problem (see my
post above) with avoiding mail function. It solved the problem but still
for example hotmail would only get 3/10 sometimes 0/10 messages, I have
now compleately solved this problem by adding ALL REQIRED headers and
changing the sendmail path with envelope matching address
......
ini_set(sendmail_path, "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f
[email protected]");
//Contents of an Registration Auto
responce email(text format)
$message = "Thanks for
registering".$userName;
$headers .= "From:
Name<[email protected]>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To:
<[email protected]>\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender:
<[email protected]>\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer:
PHP4\n"; //mailer
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n"; //1
UrgentMessage, 3 Normal
$headers .= "Return-Path:
<[email protected]>\n";
mail($email,"Registration
COnfirmation",wordwrap(stripslashes($message)),$headers);
//Uncomment
this to send html format
//$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1\n";
//$headers .= "cc:
[email protected]\n"; // CC to
//$headers .= "bcc:
[email protected]"; // BCCs to, separete multiple with commas
[email protected], [email protected]
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richard at richard-sumilang dot com
02-Oct-2002 08:41 |
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Yeah setting the timeout in php.ini isnt always the safe and best solution.
A better solution would be to just use the set_time_limit() function that
is already provided in php. It's safer because it will only apply to that
script.
Hope that helps and makes life easier.
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oliver dot ahlberg at smp dot se
19-Oct-2002 05:52 |
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I've found this quite convenient in mail functions distributing various
newsletters with HTML content:
function mail_from_file($template)
{
$to = "[email protected]";
$title = "A
message";
$header = ""; // Found elsewhere
$message =
join('',file($template));
mail($to,$title,$message,$header);
}
/*
PHP Code Body
*/
mail_from_file("newsletters/news2002-10-15.html");
This
is just a short snippet from my code, and you'll probably want to make
some string replacements in the retrieved message templates to personalize
the emails for your recipients.
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moacir at uchicago dot edu
22-Oct-2002 10:01 |
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If you're passing variables you got from somewhere else (like a form) into
mail(), make sure they're chop()-ped, or else everything will only
half-work, causing, at least in one rumoured instance, hours of fretting
and scouring of webpages and newsgroups.
It's not the order of the
headers, it's not the presence of asterisks in the Subject: line, it's
because there are inopportune \ns hiding around
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Dark_Spirit at beyondinfinit dot com
24-Oct-2002 08:20 |
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I followed an example from Godfried van Loo and found an error in his code.
Hotmail was sending my mail to the recipient's junk mail. I found out that
if you remove the "To: " line from the header, hotmail sends the
mail to the inbox. here is my code:
function
SEND_HTML_MAIL($mail_info) {
$from_name =
$mail_info["from_name"];
$from_address =
$mail_info["from_address"];
$to_name =
$mail_info["to_name"];
$to_address =
$mail_info["to_name"]."
<".$mail_info["to_address"].">";
$message = $mail_info["message"];
$subject =
$mail_info["subject"];
$headers .= "MIME-Version:
1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From:
".$from_name." <".$from_address.">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$from_name."
<".$from_address.">\r\n";
$headers .=
"X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority:
High\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: iCEx Networks HTML-Mailer
v1.0";
mail($to_address, $subject, $message, $headers);
}
I hope this code will help you out.
Simon
Germain
www.beyondinfinit.com
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anon at nospam dot com
29-Oct-2002 05:22 |
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is your mail() not working/hangs???
check if you have a lot of
queued files in /var/spool/clientmqueue ...
if that's the case then
there might be something wrong with your sendmail conf (usually it's the
domain)
if not, then check the permissions on the
/var/spool/clientmqueue, I altered mine and after that it worked..
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kieran dot huggins at rogers dot com
06-Nov-2002 04:52 |
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Finally got MIME working with attachments and everything:
The
following is an example of a plaintext/html e-mail with
attachments
for the HTML code, I had to include the weird markup
that outlook express 6 added when the message was sent, otherwise it
wouldn't display properly. Send a copy of the message to yourself and
copy the source.
Also, the /n newlines are important, normal rules
of HTML seem to go kinda wonky with e-mail...
Experiment with your
mailer and try different stuff.
<?php
// some local
variables
$from_name = "Sender Name";
$from_email =
"[email protected]";
$to_name = "Recipient
Name";
$to_email = "[email protected]";
$subject =
"Fantastic Subject";
// headers need to be in the correct
order...
$headers = "From:
$from_name<$from_email>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To:
<$from_email>\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version:
1.0\n";
// the following must be one line (post width too
small)
$headers .= "Content-Type:
multipart/related;
type=\"multipart/alternative\";
boundary=\"----
=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\"\n";
//
$headers
.= "X-Sender: $from_name<$from_email>\n";
$headers .=
"X-Mailer: PHP4\n"; //mailer
$headers .= "X-Priority:
3\n"; //1 UrgentMessage, 3 Normal
$headers .= "Return-Path:
<$from_email>\n";
$headers .= "This is a multi-part
message in MIME format.\n";
$headers .=
"------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message \n";
$headers .=
"Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=\"----=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\"\n";
//plaintext
section begins
$message =
"------=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\n";
$message .=
"Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$message .=
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n";
$message .=
"\n";
// your text goes here
$message .= "blah
blah -- plaintext version of the message\n";
$message .=
"\n";
// html section begins
$message .=
"------=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\n";
$message .=
"Content-Type:
text/html;\n charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$message .=
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n";
$message .=
"\n";
// your html goes here -- It didn't appear properly
without
// the weird markup that outlook added after
sending
$message .= "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD
HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">\n";
$message .=
"<HTML><BODY>\n";
$message .= "blah blah --
html version of the message\n";
// look ma, I'm referencing an
img attachment (see below)
// watch out for weird markup!!!
$message
.= "<IMG
src=3D\"cid:some_picture\">\n";
$message .=
"</BODY></HTML>\n";
$message .=
"\n";
// this ends the message part
$message .=
"------=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts--\n";
$message .=
"\n";
// now we add attachments (images, etc)
$message
.= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\n";
$message .=
"Content-Type: image/gif; \n
name=\"some_picture.gif\"\n";
$message .=
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$message .=
"Content-ID: <some_picture>\n";
$message .=
"\n";
\\ (truncated for space)
$message .=
"R0lGODlheAAZAKIHAMTExCQkJJOTk\n";
$message .=
"eLo7wzDKSatVQ5R3u7dDUUjcZ34D\n";
$message .=
"\n";
// etc...etc...etc...
//message ends
$message
.= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message--\n";
// send the
message :-)
mail("$to_name<$to_email>", $subject,
$message, $headers);
?>
I hope this helps -- sorry for
the long post!
Kieran
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casdeiro at degalicia dot org
14-Nov-2002 06:20 |
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Very strange behavior detected. Don't know if it's got to be with PHP, with
SENDMAIL, with INI files or what, but it's true. Hope you can try in you
own systems and find out where's the problem:
(In an on-line
lottery system) trying to send (confirmation) messages like
these:
mail("[email protected]", "Confirmacion compra
boleto num. 034", $message, $headers)
...they all arrive OK,
but when subject was *slightly* different, like
this:
mail("[email protected]", "Confirmacion compra
boleto num. 178", $message, $headers)
...the never
arrived!
I detected the difference was when the character after the
blank space after the dot, was a '0', it was sent OK, but when that
character was 1,2,3... or any other number (not tried with letters), the
were not sent at all!
At last I tried
this:
mail("[email protected]", "Confirmacion compra
boleto num. -178-", $message, $headers)
...and it worked
allright!
Any idea of the reason for this strange
behavior?
(I drove myself mad for hours until I detected why some
of my messages were sent and others not.)
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hilger at emotiv-design dot de
20-Nov-2002 05:43 |
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attachments in mail function
I just wanted to add something useful
to Kieran's note (06-Nov-2002 10:52):
you can automate the attachment
by reading the file into a variable with fopen and fread, then (important)
base64_encode it and chunksplit it. It worked fine with all PDFs I tried -
the attachment just gets a little bigger (around 35%).
In the example
below I used Kierans script, but shortened it in some places. HTML version
etc. can of course be added again.
$headers = "From: $from
<$email>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $from
<$email>\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version:
1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=\"MIME_BOUNDRY\"\n";
$headers .=
"X-Sender: $from_k <$email>\n";
$headers .=
"X-Mailer: PHP4\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: <$email>\n";
$headers .=
"This is a multi-part message in MIME
format.\n";
$message =
"--MIME_BOUNDRY\n";
$message .= "Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$message .=
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n";
$message .=
"\n";
// your text goes here
$message .= "blah blah
-- plaintext version of the message\n";
$message .=
"\n";
$message .= "--MIME_BOUNDRY\n";
$message
.= "Content-Type: application/pdf;
name=\"brilliant.pdf\"\n";
$message .=
"Content-disposition: attachment\n";
$message .=
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$message .=
"\n";
$message .= "$str\n";
$message .=
"\n";
//message ends
$message .=
"--MIME_BOUNDRY--\n";
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hilger at emotiv-design dot de
20-Nov-2002 05:46 |
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sorry I forgot to add the most imortant part:
// Example for reading
the file that you attach:
$file_url =
"virtual/pdf/file.pdf";
$fp =
fopen($file_url,"r");
$str = fread($fp,
filesize($file_url));
$str = chunk_split(base64_encode($str));
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kieran dot huggins at rogers dot com
20-Nov-2002 09:24 |
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Thanks Hilger - that will come in handy on my end.
Here's a great
overview of the MIME spec from 1993:
Happy
mailing! - Kieran
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alex at bartl dot net
29-Nov-2002 06:25 |
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/*
This might be some useful stuff to send out emails in either
text
or html or multipart version, and attach one or more files or
even
none to it. Inspired by Kieran's msg above, I thought it might be
useful to have a complete function for doing this, so it can be used
wherever it's needed. Anyway I am not too sure how this script
will
behave under Windows.
{br} represent the HTML-tag for line
break and should be replaced,
but I did not know how to not get the
original tag parsed here.
function SendMail($From, $FromName, $To,
$ToName, $Subject, $Text, $Html, $AttmFiles)
$From ... sender mail
address like "[email protected]"
$FromName ... sender name like
"My Name"
$To ... recipient mail address like
"[email protected]"
$ToName ... recipients name like
"Your Name"
$Subject ... subject of the mail like
"This is my first testmail"
$Text ... text version of
the mail
$Html ... html version of the mail
$AttmFiles ...
array containing the filenames to attach like
array("file1","file2")
*/
$TEXT="This
is the first test\n in text format\n.";
$HTML="<font
color=red>This is the first test in html
format.</font>";
$ATTM=array("/home/myself/test/go.jpg",
"/home/myself/test/SomeDoc.pdf");
SendMail(
"[email protected]","PHP
Apache Webmailer",
//sender
"[email protected]","Recipients Name",
//recipient
"Testmail",
//subject
$TEXT,$HTML,$ATTM); //body and
attachment(s)
function
SendMail($From,$FromName,$To,$ToName,$Subject,$Text,$Html,$AttmFiles){
$OB="----=_OuterBoundary_000";
$IB="----=_InnerBoundery_001";
$Html=$Html?$Html:preg_replace("/\n/","{br}",$Text)
or die("neither text nor html part present.");
$Text=$Text?$Text:"Sorry, but you need an html mailer to read this
mail.";
$From or die("sender address missing");
$To
or die("recipient address missing");
$headers
="MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers.="From:
".$FromName." <".$From.">\n";
$headers.="To: ".$ToName."
<".$To.">\n";
$headers.="Reply-To:
".$FromName." <".$From.">\n";
$headers.="X-Priority: 1\n";
$headers.="X-MSMail-Priority: High\n";
$headers.="X-Mailer: My PHP Mailer\n";
$headers.="Content-Type:
multipart/mixed;\n\tboundary=\"".$OB."\"\n";
//Messages start with text/html alternatives in OB
$Msg ="This is
a multi-part message in MIME format.\n";
$Msg.="\n--".$OB."\n";
$Msg.="Content-Type:
multipart/alternative;\n\tboundary=\"".$IB."\"\n\n";
//plaintext section
$Msg.="\n--".$IB."\n";
$Msg.="Content-Type:
text/plain;\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$Msg.="Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n\n";
//
plaintext goes here
$Msg.=$Text."\n\n";
// html
section
$Msg.="\n--".$IB."\n";
$Msg.="Content-Type:
text/html;\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$Msg.="Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n";
// html goes
here
$Msg.=chunk_split(base64_encode($Html))."\n\n";
// end
of IB
$Msg.="\n--".$IB."--\n";
//
attachments
if($AttmFiles){
foreach($AttmFiles as $AttmFile){
$patharray = explode ("/", $AttmFile);
$FileName=$patharray[count($patharray)-1];
$Msg.=
"\n--".$OB."\n";
$Msg.="Content-Type:
application/octetstream;\n\tname=\"".$FileName."\"\n";
$Msg.="Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$Msg.="Content-Disposition:
attachment;\n\tfilename=\"".$FileName."\"\n\n";
//file goes here
$fd=fopen ($AttmFile, "r");
$FileContent=fread($fd,filesize($AttmFile));
fclose ($fd);
$FileContent=chunk_split(base64_encode($FileContent));
$Msg.=$FileContent;
$Msg.="\n\n";
}
}
//message ends
$Msg.="\n--".$OB."--\n";
mail($To,$Subject,$Msg,$headers);
//syslog(LOG_INFO,"Mail:
Message sent to $ToName <$To>");
}
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don (at) santiagosds.com
12-Dec-2002 10:01 |
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I recently had a problem where random "!" were appearing in my
html emails. The simple solution to this is to make sure you have line
breaks thoughout your html email. My email was written as 1 line of html
(I just sent the entire email as one string). I found that at the point
where outlook express decided to word wrap in the html source not the
actually email. A "!" will appear in the actual email. This was
so annoying to me. And took me about a hour to track down. My solution was
to just randomly insert \n into my html email message string.
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mcmer at tor dot at
13-Dec-2002 11:41 |
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Merak 4.4.2: must use "\r\n" instead of "\n"
On
a Microsoft Windows 2000 Server running Merak 4.4.2 as MTA we had a
problem using "\n" for newlines. When "\n" is used in
a message body or subject, Merak still connects to the destination SMTP
server but never delivers. Strange but true. We figured out that using
"\r\n" instead of "\n" helps out... any explanations
or similar experiences?
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rune at imptech dot net
21-Dec-2002 09:13 |
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If your using Postfix for SMTP on FreeBSD you MUST end header lines with \n
and not \r\n. I'm not sure if this is true of other platforms but this is
definitely the case on my FreeBSD server.
-=- RuneImp
ImpTech -
Web Design & Hosting
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gordon at kanazawa-gu dot ac dot jp
27-Dec-2002 07:29 |
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PROBLEM:
non-ascii (e.g. Japanese, Korean) characters appear garbled in
email subject/name headers BUT the php server is not enabled to use
multi-byte functions (mb_send_mail etc.)
SOLUTION:
encode the
non-ascii charaters using
"=?$charset?B?".chunk_split(base64_encode($non_ascii_chars))."?="
EXAMPLE:
$charset
= "iso-2202-jp"; // Japanese charater set
// encode
names, as necessary
$to_name = encode("to's name in
Japanese", $charset);
$cc_name = encode("cc's name in
Japanese", $charset);
$bcc_name = encode("bcc's name in
Japanese", $charset);
$from_name = encode("from's name in
Japanese", $charset);
// create pretty email addresses, if
possible
$to_email = create_email_address($to_name,
"[email protected]");
$cc_email =
create_email_address($cc_name,
"[email protected]");
$bcc_email =
create_email_address($bcc_name,
"[email protected]");
$from_email =
create_email_address($from_name,
"[email protected]");
// create headers
$headers =
"";
$headers .= create_email_header("Cc",
$cc_email);
$headers .= create_email_header("Bcc",
$bcc_email);
$headers .= create_email_header("From",
$from_email);
$headers .= create_email_header("Reply-to",
$from_email);
$message = "message in
Japanese";
$subject = "subject in Japanese";
//
send the email message with encoded subject and names
mail($to_email,
encode($subject, $charset), $message, $headers);
function
encode($str, $charset) {
return ($str && $charset) ?
"=?$charset?B?" . chunk_split(base64_encode($str)) .
"?=" : $str;
//
// for more details on Message Header
// Extensions for Non-ASCII Text see ...
//
// linked to from:
}
function
create_email_header($name, $value) {
return ($name && $value)
? "$name: $value\r\n" : "";
}
function
create_email_address($name, $email) {
return ($name) ? "$name
<$email>" : "$email";
}
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dropkernel at email dot com
01-Jan-2003 01:26 |
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I found that if the email address contains both user-friendly name as well
as the address, like:
From: Some
Sender<[email protected]>\r\n
the message will be
delivered using mail(). In the other hand, if the address is as
follows:
From:
[email protected]<[email protected]>\r\n
the
message won't be delivered. In fact, if there is an @-character in the
name-part of the address, the message fails to send. I wonder what other
characters may cause this?
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nimrod lehavi a_t hotmail d_o_t com
05-Jan-2003 08:42 |
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when u whish to send an email in other languages (hebrew for
example),
if you want the mail client to use the right
charset,
specify it in the headers of the mail function - for
example:
$to = "[email protected]";
$from =
"[email protected]";
$subject = "subject";
$body =
"<html><other HTML tags />charset here for logical
hebrew</html>";
$headers="Content-Type:text/html;CHARSET=iso-8859-8-i\r\n";
$headers.="From:".$from."\r\n";
mail($to,
$subject, $body, $headers);
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gordon at kanazawa-gu dot ac dot jp
07-Jan-2003 01:07 |
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Sorry, the function "encode" given above, which is supposed to
encode non-ascii characters in an email header, does not work. See
for a working version.
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amoo_miki at yahoo dot com
11-Jan-2003 11:39 |
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php all, Win32:
Getting the error, "sendmail_from" not
set, or custom "From:" header missing.
you may have set
it in your script, and you mat feel all the things are correct, i did
too.
the problem was that the php.ini file was in c:\php, and NOT in
%WINDOWS%\. copying the php.ini to the win dir, it works fine.
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m dot toci at amnesty dot it
16-Jan-2003 03:59 |
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Problems sending mail to some ISP.
("Format data error" in
Sendmail log)
I had problems sending mails to some user using
mail() function. When i tried to send mail to users of some isp (as
katamail.it), mails were not delivered, and i had a "format data
error" in the sendmail log.
I solved the problem changing the
sendmail_path in php.ini to:
sendmail_path= /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
-i -f [email protected]
where "[email protected]" is a
valid e-mail addres on the local server.
hope it helps...
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weljava at hotmail dot com
23-Jan-2003 04:07 |
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When I comment the line ";sendmail_path =" ,my iGENUS work! and I
link /usr/sbin/sendmail to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail .
good luck
every one.
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thomas at thomak dot de
24-Jan-2003 03:46 |
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Hello
I had a problem sending email from UNIX using mail() and
having:
ini_set(sendmail_path, "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f
[email protected]");
in my PHP-mail program (not in
setup).
Receivers server doesn't forward the message.
Now I use
"-f " feature as a 5-th parameter in
mail():
mail($recEmail,$subject, $message, $headers,"-f
[email protected]");
Now it works well.
Found it on
(in German)
works with PHP 4.0.5 upwards (write them).
:-) T.
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zan at stargeek dot com
24-Jan-2003 04:47 |
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here's the source code to an example of an email contact for that allows
your visitors to send you emails from a webpage
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Alper SARI
29-Jan-2003 01:23 |
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I had a problem with the email from PHP.
If you use "to" in
headers and mail function than receiver client will be shown adresses two
times. So You have to use only in mail functions to solving this problem.
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f dot touchard at laposte dot net
31-Jan-2003 02:46 |
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***Encoding plain text as quoted-printable in MIME email***
If you
don't want to install IMAP and use imap_8bit() to encode plain text or
html message as quoted-printable
(friendly french special characters
encoding :-) in MIME email, try this function.
I haven't fully tested
it ( like with microtime with long mails). I send html message as 7-bit,
so I didn't try yet with html.
If you have good html practise, you
don't really need to encode html as quote-printable as it only uses 7-bit
chars.
F.Touchard
function qp_encoding($Message) {
/*
Build (most polpular) Extended ASCII Char/Hex MAP (characters >127
& <255) */
for ($i=0; $i<127; $i++) {
$CharList[$i] =
"/".chr($i+128)."/";
$HexList[$i] =
"=".strtoupper(bin2hex(chr($i+128)));
}
/* Encode
equal sign & 8-bit characters as equal signs followed by their
hexadecimal values */
$Message = str_replace("=",
"=3D", $Message);
$Message = preg_replace($CharList,
$HexList, $Message);
/* Lines longer than 76 characters (size
limit for quoted-printable Content-Transfer-Encoding)
will be cut
after character 75 and an equals sign is appended to these lines. */
$MessageLines = split("\n", $Message);
$Message_qp =
"";
while(list(, $Line) = each($MessageLines)) {
if
(strlen($Line) > 75) {
$Pointer = 0;
while ($Pointer
<= strlen($Line)) {
$Offset = 0;
if
(preg_match("/^=(3D|([8-9A-F]{1}[0-9A-F]{1}))$/", substr($Line,
($Pointer+73), 3))) $Offset=-2;
if
(preg_match("/^=(3D|([8-9A-F]{1}[0-9A-F]{1}))$/", substr($Line,
($Pointer+74), 3))) $Offset=-1;
$Message_qp.= substr($Line,
$Pointer, (75+$Offset))."=\n";
if ((strlen($Line) -
($Pointer+75)) <= 75) {
$Message_qp.= substr($Line,
($Pointer+75+$Offset))."\n";
break
1;
}
$Pointer+= 75+$Offset;
}
} else
{
$Message_qp.= $Line."\n";
}
}
return
$Message_qp;
}
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ronan dot minguy at wanadoo dot fr
20-Feb-2003 03:45 |
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If you want to send an email in HTML with accent letters (for
non-only-english speaking people) or the euro sign, put this in your
header :
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-15
Ronan
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tj
11-Mar-2003 03:41 |
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Using IIS's CDONTS
------------------------------------------
I
found a link here...
...which
shows how to utilize the CDONTS COM
object when running PHP under
IIS.
<?php
@$CDONTS = new
COM("CDONTS.NewMail");
@$CDONTS->From =
"[email protected]";
@$CDONTS->To =
"[email protected]";
@$CDONTS->CC =
"[email protected]";
@$CDONTS->BCC =
"[email protected]";
@$CDONTS->BodyFormat =
0;
@$CDONTS->MailFormat =
0;
//@$CDONTS->AttachFile("c:\file.txt");
@$CDONTS->Subject
= "Using CDONTS with PHP4 and IIS";
@$CDONTS->Body =
"Blah blah blah blah,
bleh...";
@$CDONTS->Send();
@$CDONTS->Close();
print
"Mail sent";
?>
The only problem is (and this is
where I am hoping
to get some input from others) when I run this
code,
it received over 200 emails, and there were still
another
1000+ emails queued on the server (and that
was just when I was finally
able to kill it).
Anyone have any explainations, or better
examples?
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Joscha
12-Mar-2003 10:53 |
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Never forget the header
Content-type: text(/html);
charset=iso-XXXX-XX\r\n"; (Where XXXX-XX stands for the charset and
HTML is optional - don't write HTML when you send plain text
mails)
If you forget to set this header, Outlook Express shows the
mail correctly but Outlook has probs with it.
Outlook build 9: No
newlines will appear in the mail
Outlook build 10: After every line a
second newline will appear.
After setting the header, the mail will
be shown correct in all email programs.
(Keywords: newline,
outlook, outlook express, \n\r, \r\n, double newlines, no newline)
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mfloryan at bigfoot dot com
21-Mar-2003 03:51 |
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A brief comment on the "\r\n" in headers:
Recent email
scanners (virus scanners) working on mail servers will refuse to deliver
any mail containing the "\r" character in header (your mail will
probably bounce off with "Disallowed MIME characters found in
headers" comment).
This is true for Qmail-Scanner and F-Prot
Antivirus for Linux but for others most probably too.
Hence use
"\r\n" in headers ONLY when you send you email using the mail()
function via Windows-based SMTP server - otherwise just use "\n"
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msg000 at hotmail dot com
26-Mar-2003 10:09 |
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I have been trying for several hours to attach a file to my email form. I
was able to attach a file that is present in the www root directory
easily. I viewed the mail and the attachment. however, when i try to
attach a file from my PC I get an error. If somebody would help me in this
since in all the above notes, I didn't find any note that states how
should the path of a file found on the user's PC be written to be attached
to a file.
I am trying to write the
following:
<?
...
$attachment =
"c:\\resume.doc";
$newmail = new
CMailFile($subject,$to,$from,$message,$attachment,$mimetype);
$newmail->sendfile();
?>
Any help would be
appreciated
Thank u in advance
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info at van minus ed dot enel
28-Mar-2003 12:38 |
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If you get an unexplainable exclamation mark (!) appearing
in the mail
that you send using mail(),you are probally
sending a message wich has
no newline characters (\n)
Fix this in your script or use
this
$msg = wordwrap($msg, 72);
This will make sure that
there are no excessively long
lines in your message, and thus remove
that exclamation mark from your message.
ED
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gdecaso at 2vias dot com dot ar
14-Apr-2003 08:42 |
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When trying to use the mail() function under windows based systems, do NOT
forget to complete the 'sendmail_from' with your valid e-mail address in
your php.ini file. If not, you won't be able to send mails to anyone but
yourself.
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untold at punkass dot com
16-Apr-2003 09:13 |
|
Here's the final solution for me:
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michael a at mac dott com
03-May-2003 06:57 |
|
If you are getting slash characters replacing single and double quotes and
apostrophes - like ' becoming /' - then apparently there is an issue with
your php.ini file.
But the easy way to fix it is to use the
function 'stripcslashes'.
Just use:
<?php mail( $to ,
stripcslashes($subject) , stripcslashes($message) ...
Took me
hours to find it.
Michael
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grey at greywyvern dot com
09-May-2003 05:23 |
|
Here's a function I'm continually working at to send multiple emails while
only opening the socket once (much faster than mail()) while sending a
separate email to each address. It also includes many headers which you
can adjust to your liking. Note the comment which explains the array
format for incoming "To:" addresses.
function
socketmail($toArray, $subject, $message) {
// $toArray format -->
array("Name1" => "address1", "Name2"
=> "address2", ...)
ini_set(sendmail_from,
"[email protected]");
$connect = fsockopen
(ini_get("SMTP"), ini_get("smtp_port"), $errno,
$errstr, 30) or die("Could not talk to the sendmail server!");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);
fputs($connect, "HELO
{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}\r\n");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);
while (list($toKey, $toValue) = each($toArray)) {
fputs($connect, "MAIL FROM:[email protected]\r\n");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);
fputs($connect, "RCPT
TO:$toValue\r\n");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);
fputs($connect, "DATA\r\n");
$rcv = fgets($connect,
1024);
fputs($connect, "Subject: $subject\r\n");
fputs($connect, "From: My Name
<[email protected]>\r\n");
fputs($connect, "To:
$toKey <$toValue>\r\n");
fputs($connect,
"X-Sender: <[email protected]>\r\n");
fputs($connect, "Return-Path: <[email protected]>\r\n");
fputs($connect, "Errors-To:
<[email protected]>\r\n");
fputs($connect,
"X-Mailer: PHP\r\n");
fputs($connect, "X-Priority:
3\r\n");
fputs($connect, "Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=iso-8859-1\r\n");
fputs($connect, "\r\n");
fputs($connect, stripslashes($message)." \r\n");
fputs($connect, ".\r\n");
$rcv =
fgets($connect, 1024);
fputs($connect, "RSET\r\n");
$rcv = fgets($connect, 1024);
}
fputs ($connect,
"QUIT\r\n");
$rcv = fgets ($connect, 1024);
fclose($connect);
ini_restore(sendmail_from);
}
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