| Re: PHP Mail [message #170765 is a reply to message #170764] |
Sun, 21 November 2010 20:38   |
The Magnet
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On Nov 21, 12:02 pm, Michael Fesser <neti...@gmx.de> wrote:
> .oO(Robert Hairgrove)
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>> The Magnet wrote:
>>> Hi,
>
>>> In this application the PHP scripts are running on one server, but the
>>> postfix server is a different machine. I tried this Pear mail and
>>> although it does send using a report SMTP server there are a few
>>> things that I cannot seem to do:
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>>> - Cannot seem to alter headers to send HTML email
>>> - Recipient always has email appear as "undisclosed-recipients"
>
>>> Can anyone help? Is there a better / easier way to do this? We need
>>> to send HTML emails. We tried PHPMailer and could not get it to work
>>> at all, so, we are looking for another suggestion.
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> It might help to say what "could not get it to work" means. Such a
> simple "doesn't work" is no error description and hence pretty useless.
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>> Most of these extra mail libraries are overkill.
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> Not really.
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>> Did you look at the PHP
>> site documentation for the mail() function?
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> If you have a reliable mailer class, you really don't want to use the
> mail() function anymore. Especially creating MIME meassages by hand is
> just nonsense, error-prone and too much work.
>
>> There are some examples
>> (perhaps contributed by 3rd parties) which show you how to send HTML
>> emails. If you always use the same format, i.e. maybe with no additional
>> attachments, it is pretty simple to roll your own function using the
>> mail() function.
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> With a good class it's even simpler and much more reliable:
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> $mail = new Mail(…);
> $mail->addAddress(…);
> $mail->addAttachment(…);
> $mail->send();
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> Something like that.
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>> Also, it is a good idea to read the RFC docs referenced in the PHP site
>> to understand what is going on WRT email headers.
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> A good class takes care of all those things, including prevention of
> header injection, which is often forgotten when using mail().
>
> Micha
I'm sorry, I should have been more detailed. I am running CentOS
5.x. We were using mail(), but now since Postfix is on the other
server, I need to find a way to have it use that server.
With PHPMailer, there was some sort of class file which I could not
find and could not get the procedure working. I cannot explain it,
just the call did not do anything.If you have an example of how
PHPMailer is used or where I can go to see one, and get a complete
copy of it, because the copies I downloaded were always missing some
class.xxxxxxx.xxxxx file.
Thanks you a lot.
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