note 75460 added to function.mail

For qmail users, I have written a function that talks directly to qmail-queue, rather than going through the sendmail wrapper used by mail(). Thus it allows more direct control over the message (for example, you can adapt the function to display "undisclosed recipients" in to the To: header). It also performs careful validation of the e-mail addresses passed to it, making it more difficult for spammers to exploit your scripts. Please note that this function differs from the mail() function in that the from address must be passed as a _separate_ argument. It is automatically put into the message headers and _does not_ need to be included in $additional_headers. $to can either be an array or a single address contained in a string. $message should not contain any carriage return characters - only linefeeds. No validation is performed on $additional_headers. This is mostly unnecessary because qmail will ignore any additional To: headers injected by a malicious user. However if you have some strange mail setup it might be a problem. The function returns false if the message fails validation or is rejected by qmail-queue, and returns true on success. <?php function qmail_queue($to, $from, $subject, $message, $additional_headers = "") { // qmail-queue location and hostname used for Message-Id $cmd = "/var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue"; $hostname = trim(file_get_contents("/var/qmail/control/me")); // convert $to into an array if(is_scalar($to)) $to = array($to); // BEGIN VALIDATION // e-mail address validation $e = "/^[-+\\.0-9=a-z_]+@([-0-9a-z]+\\.)+([0-9a-z]){2,4}$/i"; // from address if(!preg_match($e, $from)) return false; // to address(es) foreach($to as $rcpt) { if(!preg_match($e, $rcpt)) return false; } // subject validation (only printable 7-bit ascii characters allowed) // needs to be adapted to allow for foreign languages with 8-bit characters if(!preg_match("/^[\\040-\\176]+$/", $subject)) return false; // END VALIDATION // open qmail-queue process $dspec = array ( array("pipe", "r"), // message descriptor array("pipe", "r") // envelope descriptor ); $pipes = array(); $proc = proc_open($cmd, $dspec, $pipes); if(!is_resource($proc)) return false; // write additional headers if(!empty($additional_headers)) { fwrite($pipes[0], $additional_headers . "\n"); } // write to/from/subject/date/message-ID headers fwrite($pipes[0], "To: " . $to[0]); // first recipient for($i = 1; $i < sizeof($to); $i++) // additional recipients { fwrite($pipes[0], ", " . $to[$i]); } fwrite($pipes[0], "\nSubject: " . $subject . "\n"); fwrite($pipes[0], "From: " . $from . "\n"); fwrite($pipes[0], "Message-Id: <" . md5(uniqid(microtime())) . "@" . $hostname . ">\n"); fwrite($pipes[0], "Date: " . date("r") . "\n\n"); fwrite($pipes[0], $message); fwrite($pipes[0], "\n"); fclose($pipes[0]); // write from address and recipients fwrite($pipes[1], "F" . $from . "\0"); foreach($to as $rcpt) { fwrite($pipes[1], "T" . $rcpt . "\0"); } fwrite($pipes[1], "\0"); fclose($pipes[1]); // return true on success. return proc_close($proc) == 0; } ?> ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 24.46.117.135 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/75460 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75460/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75460/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75460/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75460/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75460/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75460/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75460 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/75460 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php