Send mail & attachement

[Anon]

Hello, I've got 2 questions:

1. is it possible to send mail using PHP?
2. is it possible to send an attachement using PHP to a specified e-mail address?

And how can it be done?

Thanks in advance!

Patrick

[Anon]

Yes, you can use the
Mail("to", "subject", "body");
function but this doesn't support attachments on it's own. You can use it to send attachments but you need to get one of the many classes on the net that send attachments, or, you could write you own after reading RFC2049. I hope this helps and wasn't just a useless rant.

[Anon]

: 1. is it possible to send mail using PHP?

Use the mail() function.

: 2. is it possible to send an attachement using PHP to a specified e-mail address?

You need to send the message in multipart format.

Basically you read in the file to be attached with fopen() and fread(), then chunk_split(base64_encode()) the contents. You then send a message with two parts, one that has the message text and the other that has the encoded attachment.

Detailed instructions would be much too long for this forum, the easiest way to learn to do this is to download one of the many open source email packages and read through their source. I know that aeromail does it for instance.

[Anon]

hi Ken
is your mail() working?
if yes then let me know how?
thanks,
rajni

[Anon]

Yes, it is working great. See my previous post for suggestions on learning to do it.

[Anon]

Dear Ken,
my mail function is not working.
i am using php3 and apache.
i am a beginner , ur previous correspondence is not helping me.
thanks,
rajni

[Anon]

Rajni,

I think your effort that isn't helping you!!!

Michael

rajni wrote:

Dear Ken,
my mail function is not working.
i am using php3 and apache.
i am a beginner , ur previous correspondence is not helping me.
thanks,
rajni

[Anon]

hi rajni,

This is dhirendra.During the surfing find the solution of a problem i found that you are not able send mail throgh php mail function.
hope so i can help you, try this to send mail throgh php mail function

mail("[e-mail]<email id to whom you want to send>","Send mail & attachement<subject>","hi from rajni<messages>","From:[e-mail]<sender mail addres");

don't from to put From: in sender.

Let me inform if this function not running for you.

If you want to know about my problem kindly see:-

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=1&id=111294&loc=0&thread=111294

and if you have any information reagarding this please help me.

Regards
Dhirendra

[Anon]

Huh! I don't think that she understood the question. There is a possibility doing
this with mime-type conventions etc. - If you don't find source 4 that u have
2 use the RFC. If you might send a mail to yourself on a Unix-system you can
see all things you need in your spool file (Often: /var/mail/spool/<yourname>).

exec("elm -s <subject> <adresse> <adresse> < mail");

...might work - if not use a SMTP-relay (telnet <mail-relay> 25) or open the
port and talk to the server.

Bonsai

[Anon]

I don't know who "Michael" is - but in my opinion he should save his effort valuating others effort.

Here's your answer:

You have to provide the mail()-function with the following parameters:

mail([receiver],[subject],[mailtext]);

This is the information you allready got!

But this is all you need - BUT the [mailtext] should be like this:

$your_mail_adresse = "[e-mail]";
$attachment = fread($fh = fopen($attachement_filename, 'r'), filesize($attachement_filename));$fclose($fh);
$reallifename = "Patrick <" . $your_mail_adresse . ">";
$messsage_id = "<" . date("dmYHis") . $doesntmatter . ">";
$the_real_mail_text = "Hallo\nI am fine.\n";
$a_tag = "BONSAI_IST_GUT";
$mime_type = [JUST LOOK IN YOUR mime.types I WOULD BET YOUR MIMETYPE WILL BE FOUND THERE];
$filename = [THE FILENAME OF THE ATTACHEMENT U WANT 2 SEND];

$mailtext= "From:" . $reallifename . "\n Subject:Bonsai is very kind\nDate: " .
date("D . d M Y H:i:s") . "\nMessage-ID: <" . $message_id" . $your_mailadresse .
">\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"----=NextPart" . $a_tag\"\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nwww.muekno.de-Mailer: by Bonsai\n\nThis is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . $a_tag . "Content-Type: text/plain;\n charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $the_real_mail_text . "\n\n" . $a_tag . "\nContent-Type: " . $mime_type . "\n name=\"" . $filename . "\"\n\n" . chunk_split(base64_encode($attachement)) . "\n" . $a_tag . "--\n";

It is not 2 long 2 answer the right way,

Thanx 4 the fish,
Bonsai

[Anon]

Does this thing email me everytime someone posts and offhand remark?

[Anon]

here is a sample code to send a mail with an attachement !

$sendto = "[e-mail]\n";
$sender= "From: $email\n";
$subjet="personnes à contacter";
$recipient="the content of your mail\n";

$filetoattach = "example.txt";
$size = filesize($filetoattach);
$type = filetype($filetoattach);

// get the content of the file in a string
$PtrAttachedFile = @fopen($filetoattach,"r");
$StrAttachedFile = @fread($PtrAttachedFile, $size);
@fclose($PtrAttachedFile);

//base64 encoding. Because the file must be in this format to be sent with a mail client

$FileToAttach64 = base64_encode($StrAttachedFile);
//RFC 2045 norm

$FileToAttach64 = chunk_split($FileToAttach, 64 , "\r\n");

//Creation of the header. The "--some random text " string is to mark the file to send. It is used later in the $sender.
$HeaderAttachedFile = "\n--some random text\nContent-Type: ".$type.";\n name=\"".$fichier."\"\n"."Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\nContent-Disposition: attachment;\n filename=\"".$fichier."\"\n\n";

// we specify the attachement in the recipient

$recipient .= $HeaderAttachedFile.$FileToAttach64;

// we add the attachemnt header in the sender header
//chr(13) is a carriage return, chr(10) a line jump and chr(9) a tabulation

$sender .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed;".chr(13).chr(10).chr(9)."boundary=\"some random text\"\n";
mail($sento, $subjet, $recipient, $sender);
unlink("example.txt");// erase the file
}

[Anon]

Thats right ,

But how can i read the attachement ,Basicaly i want to build simple mail handling module where basic functionaly are available like (sending and receiving attachement with multiple file facility,provide folder and lots of other options also

Thanks

albo69 wrote:

here is a sample code to send a mail with an attachement !

$sendto = "[e-mail]\n";
$sender= "From: $email\n";
$subjet="personnes à contacter";
$recipient="the content of your mail\n";

$filetoattach = "example.txt";
$size = filesize($filetoattach);
$type = filetype($filetoattach);

// get the content of the file in a string
$PtrAttachedFile = @fopen($filetoattach,"r");
$StrAttachedFile = @fread($PtrAttachedFile, $size);
@fclose($PtrAttachedFile);

//base64 encoding. Because the file must be in this format to be sent with a mail client

$FileToAttach64 = base64_encode($StrAttachedFile);
//RFC 2045 norm

$FileToAttach64 = chunk_split($FileToAttach, 64 , "\r\n");

//Creation of the header. The "--some random text " string is to mark the file to send. It is used later in the $sender.
$HeaderAttachedFile = "\n--some random text\nContent-Type: ".$type.";\n name=\"".$fichier."\"\n"."Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\nContent-Disposition: attachment;\n ....

[Anon]

Excuse me but i don't really understand what you want to do... You want to make your own mail server in php ? In this case, it is a very difficult thing (for me) and I can't help you.
I can only help you module after module

[Anon]

yes

[Anon]

Scool Project!!

[dreamcaster]

Thanks for the code. It is very helpful. Do you know how to send images as embedded? I know it has to do with a cid: but I am not completely sure on the process. If you could help me or point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated. I thank you in advance.

[Anon]

Can u tell me what is "$fichier".
I have used the above code, but i am not getting the file as attachement.
Would anybody help me in this regards

regds

Murthy

albo69 wrote:

here is a sample code to send a mail with an attachement !

$sendto = "[e-mail]\n";
$sender= "From: $email\n";
$subjet="personnes à contacter";
$recipient="the content of your mail\n";

$filetoattach = "example.txt";
$size = filesize($filetoattach);
$type = filetype($filetoattach);

// get the content of the file in a string
$PtrAttachedFile = @fopen($filetoattach,"r");
$StrAttachedFile = @fread($PtrAttachedFile, $size);
@fclose($PtrAttachedFile);

//base64 encoding. Because the file must be in this format to be sent with a mail client

$FileToAttach64 = base64_encode($StrAttachedFile);
//RFC 2045 norm

$FileToAttach64 = chunk_split($FileToAttach, 64 , "\r\n");

//Creation of the header. The "--some random text " string is to mark the file to send. It is used later in the $sender.
$HeaderAttachedFile = "\n--some random text\nContent-Type: ".$type.";\n name=\"".$fichier."\"\n"."Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\nContent-Disposition: attachment;\n ....