Hi there,
Previously in my PHP code I was using Sendmail to send out emails to people
in the MySQL DB. The requirement cam along to be able to send attachments
and so I dug around for an easy bit of code that did not need classes and I
could plug easily into my PHP code.
I thought I found one (see bottom of email), however I have since discovered
that as it is, this script has the following disadvantages when compared to
using Sendmail as I used to:
1. Sendmail sent out plaintext emails however if there was text that was
like www.example.com then the code would still appear as a link in many
plain text readers. This does not seem to happen when sent using the below
script. Anyone understand why?
(Note: I use the $Text parameter rather then the $HTML one because I need to
assume customers will only have plain text email readers. I also did try
putting the body of the email into both Text and HTML but I ended up
receiving the email twice with the HTML version losing many carriage returns
etc.).
2. With send mail if the delivery address did not exist, we would get an
email bounce back. This does not seem to happen with below despite my
tweaking attempts. Anyone know why this would be?
I may have some more but issues but wont confuse for now any comments
appreciated and please see the code below.
Thanks
*******Custom - insertable sendmail code - very handy if I could fully get
it to work the way I want it to*****
function
SendMail($From, $FromName,$To,$ ToName,$Subject ,$Text,$Html,$A ttmFiles){
$OB="----=_OuterBoundary _000";
$IB="----=_InnerBoundery _001";
$Html=$Html?$Ht ml:preg_replace ("/\n/","<br>",$T ext)
or die("neither text nor html part present.");
$Text=$Text?$Te xt:"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.="To: ".$To."\n";
#$headers.="Rep ly-To: ".$FromName ." <".$From.">\n ";
#Prioriry 3 = normal 1 = high - apparently s- shouldlook more into thi
#$headers.="X-Priority: 1\n";
#$headers.="X-MSMail-Priority: High\n";
#$headers.="X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n";
$headers.="X-Mailer: My PHP Mailer\n";
$headers.="Cont ent-Type: multipart/mixed;\n\tbound ary=\"".$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\tchars et=\"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\tcharse t=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$Msg.="Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n";
// html goes here
$Msg.=chunk_spl it(base64_encod e($Html))."\n\n ";
// end of IB
$Msg.="\n--".$IB."--\n";
// attachments
if($AttmFiles){
foreach($AttmFi les as $AttmFile){
$patharray = explode ("/", $AttmFile);
$FileName=$path array[count($patharra y)-1];
$Msg.= "\n--".$OB."\n";
$Msg.="Content-Type:
application/octetstream;\n\ tname=\"".$File Name."\"\n";
$Msg.="Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$Msg.="Content-Disposition:
attachment;\n\t filename=\"".$F ileName."\"\n\n ";
//file goes here
$fd=fopen ($AttmFile, "r");
$FileContent=fr ead($fd,filesiz e($AttmFile));
fclose ($fd);
$FileContent=ch unk_split(base6 4_encode($FileC ontent));
$Msg.=$FileCont ent;
$Msg.="\n\n";
}
}
//message ends
$Msg.="\n--".$OB."--\n";
#mail($To,$Subj ect,$Msg,$heade rs);
mail("",$Subjec t,$Msg,$headers );
//syslog(LOG_INFO ,"Mail: Message sent to $ToName <$To>");
}
Previously in my PHP code I was using Sendmail to send out emails to people
in the MySQL DB. The requirement cam along to be able to send attachments
and so I dug around for an easy bit of code that did not need classes and I
could plug easily into my PHP code.
I thought I found one (see bottom of email), however I have since discovered
that as it is, this script has the following disadvantages when compared to
using Sendmail as I used to:
1. Sendmail sent out plaintext emails however if there was text that was
like www.example.com then the code would still appear as a link in many
plain text readers. This does not seem to happen when sent using the below
script. Anyone understand why?
(Note: I use the $Text parameter rather then the $HTML one because I need to
assume customers will only have plain text email readers. I also did try
putting the body of the email into both Text and HTML but I ended up
receiving the email twice with the HTML version losing many carriage returns
etc.).
2. With send mail if the delivery address did not exist, we would get an
email bounce back. This does not seem to happen with below despite my
tweaking attempts. Anyone know why this would be?
I may have some more but issues but wont confuse for now any comments
appreciated and please see the code below.
Thanks
*******Custom - insertable sendmail code - very handy if I could fully get
it to work the way I want it to*****
function
SendMail($From, $FromName,$To,$ ToName,$Subject ,$Text,$Html,$A ttmFiles){
$OB="----=_OuterBoundary _000";
$IB="----=_InnerBoundery _001";
$Html=$Html?$Ht ml:preg_replace ("/\n/","<br>",$T ext)
or die("neither text nor html part present.");
$Text=$Text?$Te xt:"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.="To: ".$To."\n";
#$headers.="Rep ly-To: ".$FromName ." <".$From.">\n ";
#Prioriry 3 = normal 1 = high - apparently s- shouldlook more into thi
#$headers.="X-Priority: 1\n";
#$headers.="X-MSMail-Priority: High\n";
#$headers.="X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n";
$headers.="X-Mailer: My PHP Mailer\n";
$headers.="Cont ent-Type: multipart/mixed;\n\tbound ary=\"".$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\tchars et=\"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\tcharse t=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$Msg.="Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n";
// html goes here
$Msg.=chunk_spl it(base64_encod e($Html))."\n\n ";
// end of IB
$Msg.="\n--".$IB."--\n";
// attachments
if($AttmFiles){
foreach($AttmFi les as $AttmFile){
$patharray = explode ("/", $AttmFile);
$FileName=$path array[count($patharra y)-1];
$Msg.= "\n--".$OB."\n";
$Msg.="Content-Type:
application/octetstream;\n\ tname=\"".$File Name."\"\n";
$Msg.="Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$Msg.="Content-Disposition:
attachment;\n\t filename=\"".$F ileName."\"\n\n ";
//file goes here
$fd=fopen ($AttmFile, "r");
$FileContent=fr ead($fd,filesiz e($AttmFile));
fclose ($fd);
$FileContent=ch unk_split(base6 4_encode($FileC ontent));
$Msg.=$FileCont ent;
$Msg.="\n\n";
}
}
//message ends
$Msg.="\n--".$OB."--\n";
#mail($To,$Subj ect,$Msg,$heade rs);
mail("",$Subjec t,$Msg,$headers );
//syslog(LOG_INFO ,"Mail: Message sent to $ToName <$To>");
}
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