note 32650 deleted from function.mail by pollita

Note Submitter: tiele@skynet.be ---- If you can't use the mail() function to send an email or if you wish to build up the complete mail from scratch, you can use fsockopen. Here's how: $smtp = fsockopen("localhost", "25"); // Open a connection to the SMTP server (25 = standard smtp port) fwrite($smtp, "HELO localhost\r\n"); // Identify yourself to the server fwrite($smtp, "MAIL FROM: <my.email@job.com>\r\n"); // Sender fwrite($smtp, "RCPT TO: <to.whom@other.com>\r\n"); // Reciever fwrite($smtp, "DATA\r\n"); // Start pushing mail headers & email to the server from the next line fwrite($smtp, "From: \"My Name\" <my.email@job.com>>\r\n"; fwrite($smtp, "Reply-To: <my.email@job.com>\r\n"; fwrite($smtp, "To: to.whom@other.com\r\n"; fwrite($smtp, "Subject: My First Email\r\n"; fwrite($smtp, "Date: ".date("r")."\r\n"; fwrite($smtp, "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; fwrite($smtp, "Content-type: text/plain;\r\n"; fwrite($smtp, "\r\n"; // Blank line before the body fwrite($smtp, "Body of email\r\n"; fwrite($smtp, "\r\n"; fwrite($smtp, ".\r\n"); // Send a dot to tell the server you wanna stop pushing the headers. fwrite($smtp, "QUIT\r\n"); // Stop building up mail & send it fclose($smtp); // Close connection. Those might not be the best way but it sure works. I had some problems sending lots of headers (multipart mail) using mail() / imap_mail(). Works great this way.