sending an HTML email

Anon

Hi,

I found this interesting function to send email in a HTML format. It works well for my Outlook and some webmails (Mail.com, Caramail, Yahoo.com). The problem is it doesn't work with Hotmail... any idea why ?

The function can be found at :
http://dev.nexen.net/scripts/details.php?scripts=1

Thanks for any help !

Michel

dmcinnis

I am having the same problem. Did you ever get an answer to multipart/alternative?

David

Anon

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Anon

I am searching on the net for the EXACT SAME problem. It works with the MSN web client, but not the MSN GUI. If I find the answer, I will come back to post it.

Anon

Here is a function that I wrote. It works for me.

// Sends and email message based on parameters passed //

function send_multiemail ($lc_recipient_email, $lc_recipient_name, $lc_subject, $lc_from_email, $lc_from_name, $lc_sender, $lc_priority, $lc_return, $lc_html, $lc_text)
{
// send email

$boundary = "----=_NextPart_000_" . uniqid("DO_PHP");

// text
$lc_message .= "--$boundary\n";
$lc_message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; \n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$lc_message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n";
$lc_message .= $lc_text . "\n";

// html
$lc_message .= "--$boundary\n";
$lc_message .= "Content-Type: text/html; \n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$lc_message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n";
$lc_message .= $lc_html;


// final boundary
$lc_message .= "\n--$boundary--";

/* recipients */
$lc_recipient = "$lc_recipient_name <$lc_recipient_email>";

/* subject */
$lc_subject = "$lc_subject";

$lc_headers  = "From: $lc_from_name <$lc_from_email>\n";
$lc_headers .= "X-Sender: <$lc_sender>\n"; 
$lc_headers .= "X-Mailer: DataOvation\n"; // mailer
$lc_headers .= "Return-Path: <$lc_return>\n";  // Return path for errors
$lc_headers .= "Mime-Version: 1.0\n";
$lc_headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$boundary\"\n";
$lc_headers .= "X-Priority: $lc_priority"; // Urgent message!


mail($lc_recipient, $lc_subject, $lc_message, $lc_headers);

//end email stuff

return "";

}

wardjame

I have been using your send_multiemail function for a while now with great success David. However I have been unable to use it inside a loop to send multiple emails. Here is the code (I put the function in email.inc):

include_once("./inc/email.inc");

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$email=$row["email"];
send_multiemail ($email, $email, "Great Resource from foo bar", $email, $email,"","","me@foo.bar", $html_message,"Great Resource from foo bar.");

}

Everything here works fine outside of the while loop but fails inside it.

Anon

Thanks for the function, although it didn't work for me in outlook express in windows xp, version 6.00.2600.0000.

I managed to fix it, I just had to enter an extra newline, so the 2 lines that look like this:

$lc_message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n";

become:

$lc_message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n";

Hope this helps someone!