Re: email w/attachments

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 11:05 +0100, Richard Quadling wrote: > On 18 April 2011 04:38, Bastien <phpster@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 2011-04-17, at 10:26 PM, tedd <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi gang: > >> > >> Anyone have an email script that allows attachments they would share? > >> > >> I've been trying to figure this out and everything I've tried has failed. > >> I've looked at over a dozen scripts that don't work. I'm about to pull out what hair > >> I have left. > >> > >> Cheers (I think), > >> > >> tedd > >> > >> -- > >> ------- > >> http://sperling.com/ > >> > >> -- > >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > > > > I use phpmailer for that. Great class and easy to do > > > > Bastien Koert > > When I started out, I used the HtmlMimeMail class from Richard Heyes > at phpguru.org. It is now called RMail. > > I found this very easy to use. > > Extending the main class to include logging of mail is very easy (this > year, I've sent 33,500 emails using it). > > I send email with a plain text part as well as a HTML part. With > embedded images and PDF attachments. > > The recipients use a combination of Outlook (2003 and later), > GoogleMail and YahooMail. > > All of the clients so far can read the messages sent and get the attachments. > > If you intend to send HTML mail, you will have to go back to using > tables with inline CSS if you want to be halfway readable on Outlook > 2007+. Outlook 2003 was very good with HTML mail. Outlook 2007+, not > so good. But that is fine for me, as the data was all tables. But for > those sending out pretty mails, I believe it is a harder job that > expected. > > Richard. > > -- > Richard Quadling > Twitter : EE : Zend > @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY > I use phpmailer[1], and even though most people dont like it, Pear MAILER as well. With both, I've sent both HTML and plain text, as well as attachments without any issues. phpmailer[1] is my "mailer script" of choice. Steve. [1] http://phpmailer.worxware.com/index.php