Mail() function

[nik3k]

Here is my code at the moment (part of a form on another page):

<?
$to=$_POST['to'];
$from=$_POST['from'];
$message=$_POST['message'];
$subject=$_POST['subject'];

if(mail($to,"$subject",$message,"From: $from\n")) 
{
echo "E-Mail sent sucessfully";
} 

else {
echo "There was a problem sending the mail. Please go back 
and check that you filled in the form correctly.";
}

?>

Please can someone tell me how to add header such as BCC, CC, priority, etc

Thanks

PS: is there any way to add attachments to this email form.

[antje]

Hi! Here's a useful link: http://at.php.net/manual/de/ref.mail.php

And here's an example of using mail(), which takes 5 arguments. The headers are listed as one string in the fourth argument, with line breaks with \n between the headers and with no spaces after the : character. The fifth argument begins with '-f' followed by no space and is useful if your provider doesn't like the From: header).

mail("[e-mail]",
"This is the subject line",
"This is whatever you have to say in the actual message",
"From:[e-mail]\n
To:$to_email\n
Reply-To:$user_email\n
MIME-Version: 1.0\n
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n
X-Priority: 1\n
X-MSMail-Priority: Low\n
X-Mailer: Whatever Server",
"[e-mail]")

Sorry, I'm not strong on the attachments but search the articles here or on a similar dev site and you're bound to find something.

Good luck,
Antje

[antje]

Hi again,
try this:

http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/

http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html

-Antje

[nik3k]

Thanks a lot, that was very helpful. 🙂

[nik3k]

With the phpmail sourceforge project does it need a specific SMTP server or can it work like the basic mail() function?

Thanks