Re: HTML email marketing tool

The PHP mail() functtion csan send any ttype of email - to send HTML mail you need to supply a header of type text/html rather than text/plain. There are some mail classes with documentation, which you can use to send HTML (MIME) mail, mail with file attachments etc, here : http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/kartic20000807.php3 and here : http://www.zend.com/apps.php?CID=169 Read this article and you will hav an excellent understanding of sending mail from PHP. << notes to add Terence to mail filters too :-) BTW - it is easy to end up with your server on a blacklist if some of your 'prospects' complains they are getting unsolicited mail - ensure you are sending opt-in mail and you should have no problems - if you acquire 'prospects' from other sources, it is important to delete from your database any bounce or unread requests. It is also important that your unsubscribe works, but usually you would need to delete any prospects who have not replied to your mail within say 1 month. If you do not do this, you *are* a spammer. Regards, Neil Smith. At 05:13 12/11/2002 +0000, you wrote:

Message-ID: <20021112051259.24490.qmail@web41114.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:12:59 +0800 (CST) From: =?big5?q?Terence=20Ng?= <ngterry2000@yahoo.com.hk> To: php-windows@lists.php.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: HTML email marketing tool Could someone provide me an HTML email marketing (mailing list) script that allow me to capture the prospects' email list from MySQL and send HTML email through Windows 2000, IIS (Internet Information Server)? The scripts I can find are either too heavy or in Unix environment. I consider this is not spamming as I provide my prospects the option to remove from the list if I receive their email request. email() can only send text message. So, what should I do?