Re: [PHP] Sending Email via SMTP account using PHP

[Eli Orr (Office)]

Thanks Daniel!

It works perfect.

Eli

On 18/05/2011 17:47, Daniel Brown wrote:

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:17, Eli Orr (Office)  wrote:

Hi,
I'm looking for a good example for using a real SMTP account to send email
from,
such as serv...@somai.com where there is a user&  password and smtp server
available.

Please advise with a good example to reuse,

 Try this:

 http://links.parasane.net/boqp






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Re: [PHP] Sending Email via SMTP account using PHP

[Daniel Brown]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:17, Eli Orr (Office)  wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm looking for a good example for using a real SMTP account to send email
> from,
> such as serv...@somai.com where there is a user & password and smtp server
> available.
>
> Please advise with a good example to reuse,

Try this:

http://links.parasane.net/boqp



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Re: [PHP] sending email

[Daniel Molina Wegener]

On Wednesday 15 December 2010,
Marc Fromm  wrote:

> When I use the mail function on a linux server, how is the email sent?
> Does sendmail act alone or does it use SMTP?

  sendmail itself (or the replacement install, probably postfix or qmail)
is an MTA itself, so... it do not requires an SMTP server.

  You need to use SMTP server, you can try phpmailer, swift mailer and
related packages third party PHP libraries. You will need them, for example,
if your SMTP server requires authentication.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marc


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Re: [PHP] sending email with php

[George Langley]

is a straight-ahead overview of what you can/should/cant/shouldn't do  
in HTML e-mails.


Or check out:




for some heavy-duty mail classes (be sure to check the "See Also"  
section for the full story).

I also referenced the following:



on the basics of sending multi-part e-mail (ie. plain text AND HTML).
HTH.


George

On 23-Dec-09, at 1:58 PM, Sudhakar wrote:


$message = 'Transitional//EN" "

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>

Email Newsletter



















';

if(! mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
echo "There was an error is sending the email";
}
else{
echo "The email has been sent";
}
?>

hi

my question is about send an email with php like a newsletter, when  
we read
a newsletter email its similar to a webpage which contains content,  
images,

css and other elements

i created a static webpage initially with html css and images folder  
after
creating the page i wanted to test to see how it would look if i  
were to

send this as an email like a newsletter.

so i have created a php file with
$headers = "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
$to="myemailaddress";
$subject="Email Newsletter";
and
$message as mentioned above has the entire html code as i used it in  
my

static html page
i also copied the style.css in the server and created images folder  
and

copied all the images i used in my static page to the server.

i created a separate folder in my webserver called newsletter and  
copied the

php file, css file and images folder with the images i used

when i accessed the index.php as http://website.com/emailnewsletter  
i am
getting a message that The email has been sent and i am getting the  
email


however my question is when i open this email the styles and images  
are not

being applied and i see only the text in the static page i created.


can someone let me know how i can fix this so that when i open the  
email it
would look like the static page i created with all the styles  
applies and

images displayed

is this only possible by using specialized email softwares or can it  
be done

by php as well with the logic used.


any help will be appreciated.

thanks



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Re: [PHP] sending email with php

[kranthi]

No. You must have noticed gmail saying "images are blocked from .. ". This
is done to prevent spammers from knowing if your email is authentic or not.
Moreover you must have also noticed that all the news letters have a link
pointing to a web page version of the newsletter.

Re: [PHP] sending email with php

[kranthi]

another point worth noting...

most of the major email clients does not display external css/images by
default. The user will have to grant permission explicitly.

Re: [PHP] sending email with php

[Andy Shellam]

Hi Suhakar,

> 

Relative URLs won't work - when it's rendered inside the e-mail client, the 
relative URL has no meaning (I believe Outlook renders relative URLs relative 
to the temporary directory the HTML is being rendered in.)  Other clients may 
do it relative to an imap:// URL.

Try uploading the images and stylesheet to your website and putting them within 
the newsletter as absolute URLs (including the images) - e.g. http://www.yourwebsite.com/style.css"; />

Also I know this is OT and is completely up to you, but remember to include a 
plain-text part, and also realise that a lot of mail clients don't render 
images/stylesheets by default - therefore straight after the  tag before 
the rest of the content, put a link to an external website where recipients can 
view the content online.

Regards,
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Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments

[Richard Heyes]

Hi,

> ...

Sorry, quoted wrong email. Oopsy...

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Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments

[Phpster]

On Aug 10, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Skip Evans  wrote:


Bastien Koert wrote:

Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life
so much easier



   Kick Ass!!!


Yes! Wow! Was that a breeze! That class rocks!

Thanks tons, Bastien!

I have to admit when I first saw your reply I thought, "Oh, man,  
another class to learn? But I know this is so close to working."


I look at the sample and thought, "This looks easy," and had it  
working in no time.


Big thanks again!

Attachments were a big deal here and this makes it a breeze, AND it  
looks like multiple attachments would be no problem?


Very cool!

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Yep, I created a wrapper for the class and pass in attachments as an  
array. Then just loop thru the array with the attachment code. It's  
very easy.


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Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments

[Richard Heyes]

Hi,

> Very cool!

I'll take that as a compliment... :-)

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Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments

[Devendra Jadhav]

Check out this link http://www.learnphp-tutorial.com/Email.cfm

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Skip Evans  wrote:

> Bastien Koert wrote:
>
>>
>> Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life
>> so much easier
>>
>>
> 
>Kick Ass!!!
> 
>
> Yes! Wow! Was that a breeze! That class rocks!
>
> Thanks tons, Bastien!
>
> I have to admit when I first saw your reply I thought, "Oh, man, another
> class to learn? But I know this is so close to working."
>
> I look at the sample and thought, "This looks easy," and had it working in
> no time.
>
> Big thanks again!
>
> Attachments were a big deal here and this makes it a breeze, AND it looks
> like multiple attachments would be no problem?
>
> Very cool!
>
>
> Skip
>
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Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments

[Skip Evans]

Bastien Koert wrote:


Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life
so much easier




Kick Ass!!!


Yes! Wow! Was that a breeze! That class rocks!

Thanks tons, Bastien!

I have to admit when I first saw your reply I thought, "Oh, 
man, another class to learn? But I know this is so close to 
working."


I look at the sample and thought, "This looks easy," and had 
it working in no time.


Big thanks again!

Attachments were a big deal here and this makes it a breeze, 
AND it looks like multiple attachments would be no problem?


Very cool!

Skip

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Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments

[Adam Randall]

Funny, I just had to figure out today how to nicely do HTML e-mails. I
ended up using PEAR:Mail_mime, and it worked pretty well. It will also
work for your attachments. I believe that PHP itself recommends it on
their mail() function reference page.

Adam.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Skip Evans wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Trying to send emails with attachments, first try at this. And am trying to
> adapt sample code I found here:
>
> http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attachment.php
>
> Trying this:
>
> ($data contains the contents of the file; I've verified this)
>
> $hash = md5(date('r', time()));
> $attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
> $body_attachment = "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n" .
> "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"$filename\"\r\n" .
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" .
> "Content-Disposition: attachment\n".
> $attachment . "\n" .
> "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n";
>
> I then append $attachment this to the end of the email body and send it on.
> I've verified it is reading the file properly, in this test case it is a
> place text file. But I've tried a PDF and that did not work as well.
>
> What happens is the email comes through and shows an attachment paper clip
> icon in Thunderbird, but when the email is clicked on the icon disappears
> and the email is empty, even the body is not there and no attachment either.
>
> A final question I have is does the content-type value need to change for
> text files, Word Docs, PDFs, Excel files, etc, or is there one type that can
> handle any file type?
>
> Any help would be great. I'm rather stuck and floundering here.
>
> Thanks,
> Skip
>
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Re: [PHP] Sending email w/ attachments

[Bastien Koert]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Skip Evans wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Trying to send emails with attachments, first try at this. And am trying to
> adapt sample code I found here:
>
> http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attachment.php
>
> Trying this:
>
> ($data contains the contents of the file; I've verified this)
>
> $hash = md5(date('r', time()));
> $attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
> $body_attachment = "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n" .
> "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"$filename\"\r\n" .
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" .
> "Content-Disposition: attachment\n".
> $attachment . "\n" .
> "--PHP-mixed-$hash--\n";
>
> I then append $attachment this to the end of the email body and send it on.
> I've verified it is reading the file properly, in this test case it is a
> place text file. But I've tried a PDF and that did not work as well.
>
> What happens is the email comes through and shows an attachment paper clip
> icon in Thunderbird, but when the email is clicked on the icon disappears
> and the email is empty, even the body is not there and no attachment either.
>
> A final question I have is does the content-type value need to change for
> text files, Word Docs, PDFs, Excel files, etc, or is there one type that can
> handle any file type?
>
> Any help would be great. I'm rather stuck and floundering here.
>
> Thanks,
> Skip
>
> --
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> 503 S Baldwin St, #1
> Madison WI 53703
> 608.250.2720
> http://bigskypenguin.com
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Use PHPMailer or one of the other classes available...makes life
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Re: [PHP] Sending email when sendmail_from & sendmail_path = null.

[Richard Lynch]

Tim Burgan wrote:
> My client's web host's PHP configuration for both sendmail_from and
> sendmail_path are both = null.
>
> How do I send email with PHP? What options do I need to set within my
> code, and what to?

Not sure you can...

You might try using .htaccess to set things like:
php_value sendmail_path /usr/bin/sendmail -t -i

It may be that your host doesn't WANT you sending PHP email...

You then might be able to connect to another server with SMTP to send email.

Another possibility is to use PHP's IMAP functions to create emails in
your own Outbox, and then your regular mail usage to send them...

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Re: [PHP] Sending email

[zareef ahmed]

Hi Octavian Rasnita,

 Yes You can use mail() function for this purpose.

Just separate each reciepent address by a comma (,) .

$to="[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
$header="from:Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \r\n";
$subject="[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
$body="test";

mail($to, $subject, $body, $header);


Will do the needfull.


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> 
> I want to send a test message with the following
> specifications:
> 
> 1. The message is sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 2. The message is sent to the following recipients:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 3. The message has the subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 4. The message has the following header:
> From: Me<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Multiple recipients
> 
> 5. The body of the message is:
> 
> Test
> 
> Can I use mail() function for this?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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Re: [PHP] Sending email without an email server

[Justin Patrin]

Set this in your php.ini:
sendmail_from = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:17:17 -0400, robert mena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi jason,
> 
> I've added the SMTP to a smtp server, saved the .ini and restarted the
> server with no luck.
> 
> It complains
> 
> Warning: mail(): "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:"
> header missing in c:\program files\apache
> group\apache\htdocs\email.php on line 131
> 
> Line 131 is the end of the file (?>)
> 
> The mail command is
> 
> mail("Webmail <".$emailTo.">","[Contact]",$msg,"From: Webmail
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \nReply-To: ".$name." <".$emailFrom.">\n");
> 
> Any tips ?
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:20:25 +0800, Jason Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday 13 July 2004 18:46, robert mena wrote:
> >
> > > I have a small script hosted in a win32/apache/php4 enviroment where I
> > > do not have a local email server.
> > >
> > > I was wondering how could I send emails either connecting directly to
> > > the mx or sending through a relay.
> >
> > mail() on Windows system does (only) use SMTP. Just configure your php.ini
> > correctly and it should work.
> >
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Re: [PHP] Sending email without an email server

[robert mena]

Hi jason,

I've added the SMTP to a smtp server, saved the .ini and restarted the
server with no luck.

It complains

Warning: mail(): "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:"
header missing in c:\program files\apache
group\apache\htdocs\email.php on line 131

Line 131 is the end of the file (?>)

The mail command is

mail("Webmail <".$emailTo.">","[Contact]",$msg,"From: Webmail
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \nReply-To: ".$name." <".$emailFrom.">\n");

Any tips ?

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:20:25 +0800, Jason Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 13 July 2004 18:46, robert mena wrote:
> 
> > I have a small script hosted in a win32/apache/php4 enviroment where I
> > do not have a local email server.
> >
> > I was wondering how could I send emails either connecting directly to
> > the mx or sending through a relay.
> 
> mail() on Windows system does (only) use SMTP. Just configure your php.ini
> correctly and it should work.
> 
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Re: [PHP] Sending email without an email server

[Ben Ramsey]

You may also wish to look at PEAR::Mail ( 
http://pear.php.net/package/Mail ).  It provides an SMTP interface to 
sending mail.

Jason Wong wrote:
On Tuesday 13 July 2004 18:46, robert mena wrote:

I have a small script hosted in a win32/apache/php4 enviroment where I
do not have a local email server.
I was wondering how could I send emails either connecting directly to
the mx or sending through a relay.

mail() on Windows system does (only) use SMTP. Just configure your php.ini 
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Re: [PHP] Sending email without an email server

[Jason Wong]

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 18:46, robert mena wrote:

> I have a small script hosted in a win32/apache/php4 enviroment where I
> do not have a local email server.
>
> I was wondering how could I send emails either connecting directly to
> the mx or sending through a relay.

mail() on Windows system does (only) use SMTP. Just configure your php.ini 
correctly and it should work.

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Re: [PHP] Sending email with php

[Chris Hayes]

At 12:43 16-6-04, you wrote:
Hi,
How can i send email in php usig the smtp server? I'm looking for a 
tutorial or a good script.
for what it's worth, i use the class from phpguru.org
and try a google on [helo smtp php mail], loads of hits
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Re: [PHP] Sending email with the windows version of php

[Ivo Fokkema]

> > hello,
> >
> > My client is wanting to transfer their web site from a system that uses:
freebsd, apache, mysql and php, to a windows based hosting service.
> >
> Did you tell them this is a bad idea.
:)

> > So I was wondering if the Windows version of PHP sends e-mail with the
same commands as Sendmail or do I have to re-write the scripts. Or can you
tell me what form of email sending windows would use.
> >
> if you use the php mail command, you shouldn't have any problems.  In
> the unix version the mail command uses sendmail where the windows
> version connects to a smtp server and sends the message its self.
You would need to set 'SMTP' and 'sendmail_from' in your php.ini. The
'sendmail_path' doesn't work for Windows, so you can leave that blank.

Nothing else changes then...

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Re: [PHP] Sending email with the windows version of php

[Curt Zirzow]

Ivan Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello,
> 
> My client is wanting to transfer their web site from a system that uses: freebsd, 
> apache, mysql and php, to a windows based hosting service.
> 
Did you tell them this is a bad idea.


> So I was wondering if the Windows version of PHP sends e-mail with the same commands 
> as Sendmail or do I have to re-write the scripts. Or can you tell me what form of 
> email sending windows would use.
> 
if you use the php mail command, you shouldn't have any problems.  In
the unix version the mail command uses sendmail where the windows
version connects to a smtp server and sends the message its self.


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Re: [PHP] sending email

[Dan Anderson]

HTML E-mail is just HTML code embedded in the e-mail.  Pick up a book on
HTML code.  Even easier, make a web page using your favorite editor
(note ms word and open office allow you to save as web page) and cut and
paste the code.

I think there /might/ be an extra line or two you might have to add to
the mail header.  Perhaps googling would help.

-Dan

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 23:32, Aris Santillan wrote:
> hi
> 
> i want to send html format type of emails
> using mail( ); function?
> 
> is there a how to where can i start learning
> that type of encoding
> 
> 
> thanks


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Re: [PHP] sending email

[daniel]

add this in the header section

Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1

also for html body use this

$message = chunk_split(base64_encode($message));
> hi
>
> i want to send html format type of emails
> using mail( ); function?
>
> is there a how to where can i start learning
> that type of encoding
>
>
> thanks




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Re: [PHP] sending email to a mailing list

[Justin French]

on 29/08/02 8:54 AM, Andy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I do not agree. First off all (in my case) I do want to send personalized
> e-mails. And even if I cancel this wish.. how about adresses which fail? You
> will never ever find out how many adresses failed by putting them into the
> all in  bcc. And.. isn't there a restriction? What happens if you put 1
> adresses into the header? I am pretty sure this will fail.

I know of site sending with a lot more than that, although the you talk
about restrictions may be imposed by the host... and their host may be less
restrictive.

> I guess the only really good solution is to let the MTA do the job for ya. I
> just do not know how, but I am positive that this is the best solution
> (since the MTA is made for such things while php is not)

It'll make your host happy too.

It *can* be done with PHP, it's just that every solution is a real messy job
-- nothing is simple.

FWIW, I wish to send personalised emails too, but at the moment can't see
the light.


Justin French




> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> "Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> on 28/08/02 1:38 AM, Raphael Hamzagic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm with a little doubt about the best way to send a mail message to a
> large
>>> mailing list using PHP. I'm not interested  in existing mailing list
>>> managers, or source codes.
>>> I dont know if the best way to send emails is to use a repeat loop with
>>> mail() function, or use some other structure to send emails with
> timeouts
>>> intervals...
>> 
>> yes, and yes, providing you want to send personalised emails, which costs
>> huge performance problems and a lkoad on the server... possibly leads to
>> timeouts of the script, timeouts of the browser, etc etc.  Not good!
>> 
>> the real easy solution is to send ONE email with everyone in the Bcc
> field.
>> Quick and simple.  Won't piss off your host, won't load the server, etc.
>> 
>> Justin
>> 
>> 
> 
> 


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Re: [PHP] sending email to a mailing list

[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 08/28/2002 07:54 PM, Andy wrote:
> I do not agree. First off all (in my case) I do want to send personalized
> e-mails. And even if I cancel this wish.. how about adresses which fail? You
> will never ever find out how many adresses failed by putting them into the
> all in  bcc. And.. isn't there a restriction? What happens if you put 1
> adresses into the header? I am pretty sure this will fail.
> 
> I guess the only really good solution is to let the MTA do the job for ya. I
> just do not know how, but I am positive that this is the best solution
> (since the MTA is made for such things while php is not)

This is not true. You need to stude your solutions better.

If you set the return-path address right, you will collect bouncing 
messages and can process them the way you think it is right. That is 
what mailing list managers do. Go and see any mailing list and notice 
that users do not get personalized messages. It is all automatic.

You do not need an existing mailing list manager to do that. I can 
provide you a real life testemony as developer of the PHP Classes site. 
Every day, the site sends out tens of thousands of messages in form of 
alerts and newsletters. None is personalized. It would hog the server if 
I used personalization. I put all recipients in Bcc.

I have my tricks though. For instance, I use qmail with VERP (Variable 
Envelop Return-Path) to improve accuracy in the detection of which 
addresses are bouncing.

Anyway, all is done via this simple class that is meant for composing 
and sendind MIME formatted messages and has a subclass to send via 
qmail-inject that injects a single message in the local queue to over 
50.000 recipients in less than 3 seconds.

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage

Manuel Lemos


> "Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 
>>on 28/08/02 1:38 AM, Raphael Hamzagic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm with a little doubt about the best way to send a mail message to a
>>
> large
> 
>>>mailing list using PHP. I'm not interested  in existing mailing list
>>>managers, or source codes.
>>>I dont know if the best way to send emails is to use a repeat loop with
>>>mail() function, or use some other structure to send emails with
>>
> timeouts
> 
>>>intervals...
>>
>>yes, and yes, providing you want to send personalised emails, which costs
>>huge performance problems and a lkoad on the server... possibly leads to
>>timeouts of the script, timeouts of the browser, etc etc.  Not good!
>>
>>the real easy solution is to send ONE email with everyone in the Bcc
> 
> field.
> 
>>Quick and simple.  Won't piss off your host, won't load the server, etc.
>>
>>Justin
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 


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Re: [PHP] sending email to a mailing list

[Andy]

I do not agree. First off all (in my case) I do want to send personalized
e-mails. And even if I cancel this wish.. how about adresses which fail? You
will never ever find out how many adresses failed by putting them into the
all in  bcc. And.. isn't there a restriction? What happens if you put 1
adresses into the header? I am pretty sure this will fail.

I guess the only really good solution is to let the MTA do the job for ya. I
just do not know how, but I am positive that this is the best solution
(since the MTA is made for such things while php is not)

Andy



"Justin French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> on 28/08/02 1:38 AM, Raphael Hamzagic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > I'm with a little doubt about the best way to send a mail message to a
large
> > mailing list using PHP. I'm not interested  in existing mailing list
> > managers, or source codes.
> > I dont know if the best way to send emails is to use a repeat loop with
> > mail() function, or use some other structure to send emails with
timeouts
> > intervals...
>
> yes, and yes, providing you want to send personalised emails, which costs
> huge performance problems and a lkoad on the server... possibly leads to
> timeouts of the script, timeouts of the browser, etc etc.  Not good!
>
> the real easy solution is to send ONE email with everyone in the Bcc
field.
> Quick and simple.  Won't piss off your host, won't load the server, etc.
>
> Justin
>
>



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Re: [PHP] sending email to a mailing list

[Justin French]

on 28/08/02 1:38 AM, Raphael Hamzagic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I'm with a little doubt about the best way to send a mail message to a large
> mailing list using PHP. I'm not interested  in existing mailing list
> managers, or source codes.
> I dont know if the best way to send emails is to use a repeat loop with
> mail() function, or use some other structure to send emails with timeouts
> intervals...

yes, and yes, providing you want to send personalised emails, which costs
huge performance problems and a lkoad on the server... possibly leads to
timeouts of the script, timeouts of the browser, etc etc.  Not good!

the real easy solution is to send ONE email with everyone in the Bcc field.
Quick and simple.  Won't piss off your host, won't load the server, etc.

Justin



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Re: [PHP] sending email to php script

[David Robley]

On Fri,  2 Nov 2001 18:33, Adrian D'Costa wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, David Robley wrote:
> > > > > What if we need both version??
> > > >
> > > > There's nothing stopping you running both.
> > >
> > > How do you compile it for both?
> > >
> > > Adrian
> >
> > To do the cgi compile, use all the configure values you need EXCEPT
> > anything apache related. The compile will produce an executable
> > called, strangely, php.
>
> Will it work with apache then?
>
> Adrian

Um, I don't understand? Presumably you already have the module version of 
PHP running with Apache; all you need the standalone for is to non-web 
based stuff?

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Re: [PHP] sending email to php script

[Adrian D'Costa]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, David Robley wrote:

> > > > What if we need both version??
> > >
> > > There's nothing stopping you running both.
> >
> > How do you compile it for both?
> >
> > Adrian
> 
> To do the cgi compile, use all the configure values you need EXCEPT 
> anything apache related. The compile will produce an executable called, 
> strangely, php.

Will it work with apache then?

Adrian


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Re: [PHP] sending email to php script

[Chris Allen]

>"I think someone electrified the corridor," Tom said haltingly.

^^

shouldnt that be "shockingly"?

:p


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Re: [PHP] sending email to php script

[David Robley]

On Fri,  2 Nov 2001 15:09, Adrian D'Costa wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Jason Murray wrote:
> > > > You'll also need to compile php as a standalone, and put as
> > > > the first line of your php script
> > > >
> > > > #!/path/to/php -q
> > >
> > > What if we need both version??
> >
> > There's nothing stopping you running both.
>
> How do you compile it for both?
>
> Adrian

To do the cgi compile, use all the configure values you need EXCEPT 
anything apache related. The compile will produce an executable called, 
strangely, php.

I think there are a few lines in the docs about it somewhere in the 
compile section.
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RE: [PHP] sending email to php script

[Adrian D'Costa]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Jason Murray wrote:

> > > You'll also need to compile php as a standalone, and put as 
> > > the first line of your php script
> > > 
> > > #!/path/to/php -q
> > 
> > What if we need both version??
> 
> There's nothing stopping you running both.

How do you compile it for both?

Adrian


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Re: [PHP] sending email to php script

[David Robley]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:04, Adrian D'Costa wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, David Robley wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 03:23, JSheble wrote:
> > > A while ago an email came through here about how to parse out email
> > > message from a php script.  The thing that was mostly of interest
> > > to me is the ability to send an email to a php script, I guess
> > > through a sendmail alias?  I asked how to accomplish this, and
> > > never saw an answer come through.  So I'd like to ask again :o)
> > >
> > > Does anybody know what would be required or necessary to send an
> > > email to an address that would run a php script?
> >
> > You say sendmail, so do it thusly:
> >
> > Edit /etc/aliases and add a line like
> >
> > phpmail: "| /pathto/your/php/script"
> >
> > and run newaliases to update your alias database.
>
> Actually, I am still trying to figure this out when I get time.  What I
> did was:
>
> phpmail: "| lynx -dump > /pathto/your/php/script"
>
> But the problem is nothing appears to be capture in the script.  Or
> rather in what format does this mail arrive.  I even tried to write it
> to a file but nothing is written.

The pipe feeds the incoming data to the script as standard input - $DEITY 
knows what lynx would do with that, but black holes seem to be the most 
likely destination. Your script needs to be an executable, standalone 
which reads and parses data from stdin and which is the direct recipient 
of info from the pipe.

> > You'll also need to compile php as a standalone, and put as the first
> > line of your php script
> >
> > #!/path/to/php -q
>
> What if we need both version??

As my colleague on the eastern seaboard has noted already, you can have a 
module and a standalone on the same system.

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RE: [PHP] sending email to php script

[Jason Murray]

> > You'll also need to compile php as a standalone, and put as 
> > the first line of your php script
> > 
> > #!/path/to/php -q
> 
> What if we need both version??

There's nothing stopping you running both.

J

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Re: [PHP] sending email to php script

[Adrian D'Costa]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, David Robley wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 03:23, JSheble wrote:
> > A while ago an email came through here about how to parse out email
> > message from a php script.  The thing that was mostly of interest to me
> > is the ability to send an email to a php script, I guess through a
> > sendmail alias?  I asked how to accomplish this, and never saw an
> > answer come through.  So I'd like to ask again :o)
> >
> > Does anybody know what would be required or necessary to send an email
> > to an address that would run a php script?
> 
> You say sendmail, so do it thusly:
> 
> Edit /etc/aliases and add a line like
> 
> phpmail: "| /pathto/your/php/script"
> 
> and run newaliases to update your alias database.

Actually, I am still trying to figure this out when I get time.  What I
did was:
 
phpmail: "| lynx -dump > /pathto/your/php/script"

But the problem is nothing appears to be capture in the script.  Or rather
in what format does this mail arrive.  I even tried to write it to a file
but nothing is written.

> 
> You'll also need to compile php as a standalone, and put as the first 
> line of your php script
> 
> #!/path/to/php -q

What if we need both version??


Adrian


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Re: [PHP] sending email to php script

[David Robley]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 03:23, JSheble wrote:
> A while ago an email came through here about how to parse out email
> message from a php script.  The thing that was mostly of interest to me
> is the ability to send an email to a php script, I guess through a
> sendmail alias?  I asked how to accomplish this, and never saw an
> answer come through.  So I'd like to ask again :o)
>
> Does anybody know what would be required or necessary to send an email
> to an address that would run a php script?

You say sendmail, so do it thusly:

Edit /etc/aliases and add a line like

phpmail: "| /pathto/your/php/script"

and run newaliases to update your alias database.

You'll also need to compile php as a standalone, and put as the first 
line of your php script

#!/path/to/php -q

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Re: [PHP] Sending Email via PHP on Win2K

[Chris Anderson]

Check out the mail() function in the php manual. There is literally tons of
info on this function.
- Original Message -
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Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: [PHP] Sending Email via PHP on Win2K


> Hi
>
> Has anyone done this?
> Does PHP interact with the SMTP service on the machine?
> Does anyone have a script that does this?
>
> thanks
>
> Sincerely
>
>   berber
>
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> To see where PHP might take you tomorrow.
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RE: [PHP] sending email problems

[Peter Houchin]

The email address for the "To"  part is taken from values saved within the
session  and that works fine .. just when i try to send to more than one
email alais that it doesn't do..

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Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:59 AM
To: "Peter Houchin"
Subject: Re: [PHP] sending email problems


> Could some one please take a look at this and offer any suggestions as to
> why i can't 1 send multiple "to" emails and also why i can't send to the
> addesses in the "CC" part (i can't send to either single or multiple in
CC)
> This has got me baffled as to why i can't...
>
> Thanks in advance

I'm still beginning with PHP / Perl, big time, but shouldn't you have a
While loop wrapped around the mail(); (if selecting recipients from a
database)?

$sql = "SELECT email_address FROM users";

$result = @mysql_query($sql, $connection)
or die ("Time for bed.");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$address = $row['address'];

mail("$address", "$subject", "$body.", "$headers \nContent-Type:
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" );

}


I see from your email address you're in Oz.  I am in the UK.  And should be
in bed... Work tomorrow. :)

James.

> $mailsend = mail("$address", "$subject", "$body.", "$headers
\nContent-Type:
> text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" );
> print ("$mailsend");
> echo "Email
> Sent!";
> include "incend.s";
> ?>
>



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