My problem begins when I had to add a single landing page to an existing Drupal website. I've never worked with this CMS, so I just created a folder for this page in the root folder and put all the content there.
Then it appeared that I need to send mail from this page after submitting a form there. As I understood I can't use drupal_mail() function there, so I tried something like that:
$to = $email;
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: ' . $email . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: ' . $email . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
But that gave me no result.
Then I installed SMTP auth module for Drupal and tried to send mail, but again I had no result. However, test messages from SMTP module have been sent correctly.
<?php
$to = $email;
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8" . "\n";
$headers .= "From: $email" . "\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To:: $email" . "\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
Some hosts require you to use an additional parameter, -f, to send mail.
Try:
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, "-f".$email);
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I'm looking for a way to send 2 different email messages with different recipients.
I know that I can send the same message to a list of emails, but what I need is to send one text to certain recipients and other text to other list of emails.
I need this because my message contains approval information (which should only be seen by an admin) and I need to sent at the same time other mail just for telling the user "your request have been sent and will be reviewed".
Is there a function in mail() that can do this?
-As requested-
Unfortunately, PHP's mail() function can only handle this by using seperate mail() functions.
You can send the same email to multiple recipients at the same time, but to send two different messages (and two different subjects) intended for two different recipients requires using two different mail() functions, along with two different sets of recipients/subjects/messages/headers.
For example:
/* send to 1st recipient */
$to_1 = "recipient_1#example.com";
$from = "from_recip#example.com";
$subject_1 = "Subject for recipient 1";
$message_1 = "Message to recipient 1";
$headers_1 = 'From: ' . $from . "\r\n";
$headers_1 .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers_1 .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=utf-8" . "\r\n";
mail($to_1, $subject_1, $message_1, $headers_1);
/* send to 2nd recipient */
$to_2 = "recipient_2#example.com";
$from = "from_recip#example.com";
$subject_2 = "Subject for recipient 2";
$message_2 = "Message to recipient 2";
$headers_2 = 'From: ' . $from . "\r\n";
$headers_2 .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers_2 .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=utf-8" . "\r\n";
mail($to_2, $subject_2, $message_2, $headers_2);
Just like this.
<?php
//first mail ////
$to = '1stRe#example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = '1st Message';
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
//second mail ////
$to = '2ndRe#example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = '2nd Message';
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: webmaster#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
<?php
$to = 'abc#gmail.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$message = file_get_contents('http://domain.com/newsletter.html');
$headers = 'From: xyz#gmail.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: xyz#gmail.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
This in my mail code. Here I am sending my newsletter to my existing customer.
Can anyone help me how can I send/open the newsletter as the page through mail ?
I suggest you use the following, yet you won't be able to use an http:// call, because this goes against security reasons.
By doing so, anyone could include whatever they want from whatever website. The file must reside on your server in order for the following to work.
Making use of the include(), ob_start() and ob_get_clean() functions.
You must use a relative path to the file you wish to include.
<?php
ob_start();
include 'file.xxx';
$message = ob_get_clean();
$to= 'email#example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: email#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: email#example.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
echo "Message sent.";
}
else{
echo "There was a problem. Check your logs.";
}
?>
Footnotes:
I quote jsalonen from a comment: "Keep in mind that CSS support in email readers is (probably intentionally) very limited: campaignmonitor.com/css - so if it works in a regular browser, it may or may not work in an email reader."
Most Email clients such as Google will ignore CSS, so it's best to use inline CSS.
Images:
Another thing you will need to do is, if you are using images, then that's where you will need to use an http:// call to the image location(s).
I.e.: <img src="http://www.example.com/images/image_1.jpg">
if allow_url_fopen is available in the ini file, you can do this:
$html = file_get_contents('http://domain.com/newsletter.html');
$message = $html;
The reason this should work is because most email clients can read emails sent as HTML (as long as you're sending emails as HTML and not just plaintext emails).
You can use echo htmlspecialchars($html); to see what HTML you're sending.
For my project I had to create a function that sends two email. One to the customer and the other to the a seller. Both emails will have different contents.
I wrote the two function using the standard PHP mail function as below.
$to = "xxxx#xxxx.com";
$subject = 'xxxx';
$message = "hello"
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
Now, While testing the system on my own company's web server both emails seems to be sent and received. However, when I migrated the same system into an external server. only one email gets sent. primarily, the first email in the stack.
While I suspect the issue has something to do with the later server configuration, I am wondering where should I go next to debug this issue.
There were a few things in your "posted" code that were missing.
A missing semi-colon at the end of $message = "hello" (unless that was a typo/paste error?) and a dot in the first $headers
Also, not having a From: header attribute will surely result having the Email sent to and regarded as SPAM.
Having fixed those issues and added extra header information, the following code worked and did not end up in my SPAM, but the INBOX successfully.
<?php
$to = "xxxx#xxxx.com";
$email = "email#example.com";
$subject = 'xxxx';
$message = "hello";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $email" . "\r\n" .
"Reply-To: $email" . "\r\n" .
"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
Or with a success echo'ed message:
<?php
$to = "xxxx#xxxx.com";
$email = "email#example.com";
$subject = 'xxxx';
$message = "hello";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $email" . "\r\n" .
"Reply-To: $email" . "\r\n" .
"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
echo "Message sent.";
}
else{
echo "Something went wrong.";
}
?>
Visit the PHP.net website for more information on the mail() and header() functions.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
I am having a problem sending emails when I add header information.
However when I just remove the header parameter it works. What is wrong? Is it the code? Or some setting I need to change on the web server admin panel to say "Allow-Headers" or something?
I am trying to send to hotmail in case this has any relavance in determining the problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Below Doesn't Send Email:
<?php
$to = 'iputmyrealemailhere#hotmail.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
Below Sends Email:
<?php
$to = 'iputmyrealemailhere#hotmail.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster#example.com';
mail($to, $subject, $message);
?>
I use these headers in my php mailing function and it works well. Note: I also use a third party mail-routing service to avoid having my mails marked as coming from a spammy IP. You might want to look into that also.
$headers = 'From: '.$from.'#foo.net' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: '.$from.'#foo.net' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" .
'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
I also use the optional fifth parameter to mail() to set the envelope address, e.g.:
$parameters = '-f '.$from.'#foo.net';
so the final call is:
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, $parameters);
You can just delete the "FROM:" from the headers list .. it prevents it in some hosts .But the real question then will be how ca I change the sent from email address to a specific email that I want
I am sending email using php script and i am setting from address as
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "$from" . "\r\n";
$headers.= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
So, the mail coming to my mail address as from support#mysite.com, But i need to set from address as support#gmail.com.But it is not coming with the modified from address. So, please help to solve this problem..
You try this...
<?php
$to = 'nobody#example.com';
$subject = 'Mail Subject';
$message = 'Test';
$headers = 'From: support#gmail.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: support#gmail.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
Hop this will works...
Replace header text,
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" . 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP \r\n";
$headers .= "From: YourName <support#gmail.com>";
To get more information about mail function
may this help you.