smtp - sending emails

[rakennedy75]

I recently recieved a script from this forum, which helped me out but I ran into some problems. I am trying to connect to smtp server and have no problem doing this. I am able to send the email but the email doesn't send any info (no subject, to, from etc). The problem is customizing the From, the To, Subject, Message along with other headers. I am not sure how to do this. Here is the code I am currently using:

$smtp = @fsockopen($myServer, $myPort, $errno, $errdesc, 30);

if(!$smtp)
{
	print "Could not connect to SMTP server";
} else {
	print fgets($smtp,1024);
	echo "<br>";

$helo = fputs($smtp,"helo server\r\n");
print fgets($smtp,1024);
echo "<br>";

$send = fputs($smtp, "MAIL FROM: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n");
print fgets($smtp,1024);
echo "<br>";

$send2 = fputs($smtp, "RCPT TO: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n");
print fgets($smtp,1024);
echo "<br>";

$send3 = fputs($smtp, "DATA\r\n");
print fgets($smtp,1024);
echo "<br>";

$test="Hello! Just testing!!\r\n";
echo "<br>";

$send4 = fputs($smtp, "$test\r\n.\r\n"); 
print fgets($smtp,1024);
echo "<br>";

fputs($smtp,"QUIT\r\n"); 
print fgets($smtp,1024);
echo "<br>";
}

This is probably simple to a lot of people but I am not famaliar with the smtp commands. Any help on this would be great.

[yelvington]

This script isn't worth the time it took to type. It attempts to send SMTP envelope information without any sort of error checking, and then sends data that doesn't include valid mail headers.

Use the PHP mail() function.

[fimbria]

i would agree... use the php mail () function

i use something like this....

//form (with)

$to
$thereemail
$subject

and code something like....

if(isset($to)){  

//mail function

$email = "Sender Name:\t$name\nSender E-
Mail:\t$thereemail\nMessage:\t$message\nIP:\t$REMOTE_ADDR\n\n";  

$subject = "Message From $thereemail Via website"; 
$mailheaders = "From: $thereemail <> \n"; 
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $thereemail\n\n"; 
mail($to, $subject, $email, $mailheaders); 
print"<div align=\"center\">Message Successfully Sent
to:<br><br><b>$namehead</b>\n";
print"<br><br><a href=\"?content=contacts\">Click Here</a></div>\n";
}

[rakennedy75]

I should have been more clear on why i am attempting to send mail through this method. I am building a mailing list application which will be sending emails to clients who requested to be added. I do use the mail funciton and it works great, but I am haveing problems with aol accounts when sending multiple emails.

After many tests I found that aol rejects the emails when sending multiple emails. They are sent individually through a loop but for some reason it is not working right. This smtp method does send to aol with multiple emails but the info doesn't go over (to, from, subject, headers).

If there is anyone that knows how to fix this i would really appreciate it.
Thanks for your time and replies.

[fimbria]

Oh i see, sorry i can't help !!

[Weedpacket]

Searching these forums for SMTP ought to turn up some links to existing classes for SMTP interfaces; using one of those is probably more reliable than writing yet another one from scratch.

[rakennedy75]

Thanks for the suggestion, I guess I didn't realize that it was that difficult.
Thanks again for your replies.

[planetsim]

Its not that its hard, its just a lot of code to do something that the mail function can put into one line.

[rakennedy75]

I understand, I really don't mind doing the work and currently I don't have another solution for the aol emails. Until than I am going to try and attempt this. I will do some more research on this but if you know of a good resource I can reference that would be great, if not, no problem. Thanks again for your time.

[planetsim]

Take a look at how PHPBB did it. Dont copy it though, im not sure on the licence if it allows it or if you can and must give credit.