Re: mail() - how to attach file to the message???

this worked for me but i did some editing and censoring oso maybe a tiny bug got in. ///SETUP strings $subject='hi there, this is not a Viagra business proposal, '; $mailto = 'xxx@ivm.vu.nl,xxx@sense.nl';// for multiple recipients, use comma 'x@x.x,y@y.y,z@z.z' $From = '"Your website'" <yourmail@mail.org>'; // gets shown as mail sender. can be anything. $message = "\nThis is a backup created by a script on your site. \nThe location of the script is ".__FILE__.'.'; $filedata = getyourcontentsomehow(); //create a filename for the email. the date and time at the start of the filename make it easy to sort it. $filename = date("Y_m_d__H_i").'anytext'.".sql"; //prepare mail body $filedata = chunk_split(base64_encode($filedata)); $type = "application/octet-stream"; $encoding = "base64";

    mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
    $boundary = '--b'.md5(uniqid(mt_rand())) . getmypid();   //as long as it starts with -- it should work
    $mailbody = "From: Your website script\n"

."MIME-Version: 1.0\n" ."Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$boundary\"\n\n" ."This is a MIME encoded message. \n\n"

    			."--$boundary\n"
    			."Content-Type: text/plain\n";
    			."Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n"

.$message . "\n\n\n--$boundary";

       $data =     "Content-Type: $type"."; name = \"$filename\"\n"
       		."Content-Transfer-Encoding: $encoding"
       		."\n\n$filedata\n";

$mailbody .= "\n$data\n--$boundary" ."--\n"; //send mail mail($mailto, $subject , ' ', $mailbody) or die ('Could not send email!');