PEAR::Mail_Mime library

From: Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:46:48 +0000
Subject: PEAR::Mail_Mime library
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Greetings, The PEAR::Mail library works fine..no it works GREAT for sending plaintext messages (without any attachments). However, when I recently had to create a little script to send emails with logfile attachments, I started by trying to use PEAR::Mime_Mail. I am left wondering if this library is actually not intended for allowing one to compose email messages with attachments and serves some other obscure purpose. I had so much difficulty getting it to work that I ended up having to go find a different library to do what I needed. The alternative I found was htmlMimeMail15, which is available from http://www.phpguru.org/static/htmlMimeMail5.html. The htmlMimeMail library seems very similar PEAR::Mail/PEAR::Mail_Mime, except that you can add attachments without having to know the intimate inner workings of the MIME/email formats, encoding, and/or protocols. It also had clear documententation with good examples (compared to Mail_Mime) (I would love to help PEAR with the documentation for Mail_Mime, but that would be difficult seeing as how I am unable to get it to work myself). Is it possible that another PEAR package needs to created on top of Mail_Mime to further abstract the large amount of nitty gritty protocol details that PEAR::Mail_Mime requires? Or perhaps the mistake is simply on my end due to the confusing documentation? Or is this package intended for some other purpose than sending emails with attachments? Regardless..I just wanted to find out if there is some way we can turn this thing around.. Best, Jay Taylor

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