MIME E-mail message sending: PHP mailer to compose and send MIME messages

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Last Updated		Ratings				Unique User Downloads		Download Rankings
2024-11-03 (3 months ago)		85%				Total: 48,357		All time: 5 This week: 24

Version		License		PHP version		Categories
`mimemessage` 1.0.13		BSD License		3		Email, Unix, Windows

Description

Author

Manuel Lemos

Class that may be used to compose and send e-mail messages.

It features:

- User definable headers and body parts.
- MIME encoding of text and HTML body parts with user defined character encoding using quoted-printable.
- Addition of file parts (attachments) with automatic content type detection.
- Forwarding of messages received from somebody else as intact attachments
- Support for multipart/related messages (eg. HTML messages with embedded images, stylesheets, frames, etc..)
- Support for multipart/alternative messages (eg. text and HTML versions in the same message).
- Encoding of message headers with user defined character encoding using q-encoding.
- Definition of the error delivery address setting the Return-Path header calling sendmail program directly.
- Several sub-classes for sending messages by different methods: PHP mail() function, sendmail, qmail, SMTP (with support for authentication and direct delivery mode), maildrop in Microsoft IIS or Exchange Pickup folder.
- Wrappers that emulate the mail() function using the SMTP, sendmail and qmail delivery sub-classes.
- Support for sending personalized bulk mail by replacing the contents of the message parts that differ for each recipient.
- HTML and plain text message parts can be composed using template engines. An example that works with Smarty template engine is provided.
- Retrieving the composed message data or size without sending the message

Manuel Lemos

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Level 3

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Example


<?php

/*

 * test_email_message.php

 *

 * @(#) $Header: /opt2/ena/metal/mimemessage/test_email_message.php,v 1.6 2003/10/05 17:32:56 mlemos Exp $

 *

 */



    require("email_message.php");



    $from_name=getenv("USERNAME");

    $from_address=getenv("USER")."@".getenv("HOSTNAME");

    $reply_name=$from_name;

    $reply_address=$from_address;

    $reply_address=$from_address;

    $error_delivery_name=$from_name;

    $error_delivery_address=$from_address;

    $to_name="Manuel Lemos";

    $to_address="[email protected]";

    $subject="Testing Manuel Lemos' MIME Email composition PHP class: some non-ASCII characters ÁèÎõÜ in a message header";

    $message="Hello ".strtok($to_name," ").",\n\nThis message is just to let you know that your e-mail sending class is working as expected.\n\nHere's some non-ASCII characters ÁèÎõÜ in the message body to let you see if they are sent properly encoded.\n\nThank you,\n$from_name";

    $email_message=new email_message_class;

    $email_message->SetEncodedEmailHeader("To",$to_address,$to_name);

    $email_message->SetEncodedEmailHeader("From",$from_address,$from_name);

    $email_message->SetEncodedEmailHeader("Reply-To",$reply_address,$reply_name);

/*

    Set the Return-Path header to define the envelope sender address to which bounced messages are delivered.

    If you are using Windows, you need to use the smtp_message_class to set the return-path address.

*/

    if(defined("PHP_OS")

    && strcmp(substr(PHP_OS,0,3),"WIN"))

        $email_message->SetHeader("Return-Path",$error_delivery_address);

    $email_message->SetEncodedEmailHeader("Errors-To",$error_delivery_address,$error_delivery_name);

    $email_message->SetEncodedHeader("Subject",$subject);

    $email_message->AddQuotedPrintableTextPart($email_message->WrapText($message));

    $error=$email_message->Send();

    if(strcmp($error,""))

        echo "Error: $error\n";

?>

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Enviando e-mail que chega ao destino usando PHP

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Files (39)

File	Role	Description
`documentation` (5 files)
`templates` (2 files)
`classmaps.php`	Aux.	Class maps definition array
`email_message.php`	Class	MIME E-mail composition and sending class
`get_gmail_oauth_access_token.php`	Example	Script to retrieve the Gmail OAuth access token
`how_to_get_a_gmail_oauth_access_token.md`	Doc.	Instructions on how to create a OAuth application to access the Gmail API
`message.eml`	Data	Sample message file for demonstrating message forwarding support
`pickup_message.php`	Class	Subclass to send composed messages using a Microsoft IIS or Exchange 2000 mail pickup folder
`qmail_mail.php`	Aux.	Mail() emulation function using qmail_message_class
`qmail_message.php`	Class	E-mail message sending sub-class of email_message_class using qmail
`sendmail_mail.php`	Aux.	Mail() emulation function using sendmail_message_class
`sendmail_message.php`	Class	Sendmail wrapper class to set Return-Path header and message queue options
`smtp_gmail.php`	Example	Wrapper script that provides the gmail_smtp_mail function to replace the mail function and send messages via the Gmail SMTP server
`smtp_mail.php`	Aux.	Mail() function emulation using smtp_message_class
`smtp_message.php`	Class	Subclass to send composed messages using a SMTP server
`test_attachment_message.php`	Example	Example script of how to send e-mail messages with attachment files.
`test_email_message.php`	Example	MIME E-mail message class test script
`test_forwarding_message.php`	Example	Test script for sending a MIME message that forwards another message
`test_html_mail_message.php`	Example	Example script of how to send HTML e-mail messages.
`test_multibyte_message.php`	Example	Example script of a page with a form to compose and send a message with multibyte characters text (Japanese, etc..)
`test_personalized_bulk_mail.php`	Example	Test script for sending bulk mail with messages with contents personalized for each recipient.
`test_pickup_message.php`	Example	Script to test the pickup_message class
`test_qmail_mail.php`	Example	Test script for the Mail() function emulation using qmail_message_class
`test_quoted_printable.php`	Test	Test suite for verifying the quoted printable encoding support.
`test_sendmail_mail.php`	Example	Test script for the Mail() function emulation using sendmail_message_class
`test_simple_html_mail_message.php`	Example	Example script to demonstrate how to send a simple HTML with the strongly recommended alternative text part
`test_smarty_personalized_mailing.php`	Example	Test script for sending personalized bulk mailings using templates using the Smarty engine to compose HTML and plain text alternative parts of the messages.
`test_smtp_gmail.php`	Example	Example script that provides the gmail_smtp_mail function to send messages via the Gmail SMTP server
`test_smtp_gmail_wi...auth_token_file.php`	Example	Example script that provides the gmail_smtp_mail function to send messages via the Gmail SMTP server using a file to store OAuth token data
`test_smtp_mail.php`	Example	Test script for the Mail() function emulation using smtp_message_class
`test_smtp_message.php`	Example	Script to test the smtp_message class
`test_urgent_mail.php`	Example	Test script for the urgent_mail() function
`urgent_mail.php`	Aux.	mail() function replacement for urgent message delivery connecting directly to the recipient SMTP server and fallback to the mail function in case of temporary failure

File	Role	Description
`email_message_class.html`	Doc.	Documentation of the email_message_class
`pickup_message_class.html`	Doc.	Documentation of the pickup_message_class
`qmail_message_class.html`	Doc.	Documentation of the qmail_message_class
`sendmail_message_class.html`	Doc.	Documentation of the sendmail_message_class
`smtp_message_class.html`	Doc.	Documentation of the smtp_message_class

File	Role	Description
`mailing.html.tpl`	Data	Example HTML template for composing personalized mailings with the Smarty engine
`mailing.txt.tpl`	Data	Example plain text template for composing personalized mailings with the Smarty engine

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Needed packages

Class	Download	Why it is needed	Dependency
SMTP E-mail sending class	.zip .tar.gz	If it is used the SMTP message sub-class, this class is need to perform the actual SMTP delivery	Conditional
Simple Authentication and Security Layer	.zip .tar.gz	This package is necessary when you need to send email messages via a SMTP server that requires authentication.	Conditional
PHP OAuth Library	.zip .tar.gz	This package is necessary to obtain the OAuth token that is required by some SMTP servers that support the XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism.	Conditional

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Utility:	92%
Consistency:	88%
Documentation:	81%
Examples:	84%
Tests:	78%
Videos:	63%
Overall:	85%
Rank:	3

ok 8 years ago (muabshir)	85%
The best class i've found that fits my needs to send bulk ema... 11 years ago (john marshall)	90%
good for practice 11 years ago (shyam6511)	100%
always worked for me 11 years ago (Helio)	90%
Yo! It's very usefull package. 11 years ago (Báris András)	97%
Doesn't work 13 years ago (LuisDiego)	7%
A very good package. 14 years ago (Wetter)	100%
It does what I needed. 14 years ago (marco zabel)	90%
good 14 years ago (rajeshkumar)	80%
One of my favourite packages! It works like a charm and it is... 15 years ago (Ingo Nehls)	95%
It's easy to use. 15 years ago (dewa)	85%
Excellent 15 years ago (kishore kumar)	100%
it changed my life! :-) very useful! 16 years ago (mannaro)	97%
All I have used so far in this impeccable class is email_mess... 16 years ago (Thales Jacobi)	87%
Needed changing to suit my individual needs, as expected. 16 years ago (Phil)	90%
My favorite PHP class when it comes to sending mail using a S... 16 years ago (Karthikeyan)	90%
Works perfectly 16 years ago (Daniel)	80%
The class makes the magic true. 16 years ago (Said Bakr)	77%
Pra evitar que seus emails não sejam entregues no Hotmail. 17 years ago (didi)	90%

Applications that use this package


This class is used to reformat and resend camera phone shot messages received by the site.
Used to compose and send e-mail from this site about training dogs
This projects uses the MIME message class because it handles SMTP with different authentication methods, attachments, inline images and html or text parts in a very easy way.
E-mail system management system that uses this class for composing and sending messages because it is complete and ready to use and it helped to speedup the development of this application.

If you know an application of this package, send a message to the author to add a link here.

Other classes that need this package

Class	Why it is needed	Dependency
Log watcher	When the mail delivery method is meant to replaced by the urgent mail function	Optional
Smarty and MIME message integration	To send the letter	Required

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Support mailing list where users of this class can get help. For faster support, instead use the Support forum listed above.
Smarty template engine that can be used to compose personalized bulk mailings as demonstrated in a example of this class

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