So, I would like to use mail() to send registration emails for my website, however I'd like to make it look nice while falling back to good old plaintext when necessary; a mixed message email.
However I would like it to be sent from John Doe who's email is johndoe#example.com to recipient#example.com.
The HTML code should be <html><head><title>HTML email!</title></head><body><p>This is HTML!</p></body</html> and the plaintext message should be This is plaintext.
What would be the arguments to mail() to accomplish this? I know a lot of it deals with changing the header in some crazy way.
Thanks so much!
Use something like SwiftMailer instead, as it has nice things like header injection prevention. With that in mind, yes, you have to set custom headers and use a multi-part body to achieve what you want:
/***************************************************************
Creating Email: Headers, BODY
1- HTML Email WIthout Attachment!! <<-------- H T M L ---------
***************************************************************/
#---->Headers Part
$Headers =<<<AKAM
From: $FromName <$FromEmail>
Reply-To: $FromEmail
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="$boundary1"
AKAM;
#---->BODY Part
$Body =<<<AKAM
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="$boundary1"
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--$boundary1
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="windows-1256"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
$TextMessage
--$boundary1
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="windows-1256"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
$HTMLMessage
--$boundary1--
AKAM;
Source: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php#83491
This is a lot of work. Which, once again, is why I recommend having a library that can handle all of this for you, plus other features.
Everything is here (Example #4): http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
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I stuck in a problem using 1C-Bitrix framework with PHPMailer. The problem connected with the email body.
1C-Bitrix framework prepares body depending on options enabled. For example, if I turn on the option "Create text vesion of html-email" the body will look like this:
---------alt8045b59706
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
This is my email
---------alt8045b59706
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
<h1> This is my email </h1>
---------alt8045b59706--
If I the email template will have an attached txt file, the body will look like this:
---------mix4215b5973f
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-------alt3795b5973f"
---------alt3795b5973f
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
This is my email
---------alt3795b5973f
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
<h1> This is my email </h1>
---------alt3795b5973f--
---------mix4215b5973f
Content-Type: text/plain; name="=?UTF-8?B?dGVzdC50eHQ=?="
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: <427605>
dGVzdCB0ZXh0Cg==
---------mix4215b5973f--
And, finally, the standard email body will look like this:
<h1> This is my email </h1>
I can't just feed such email body to PHPMailer. It doesn't work correctly. I tried msgHtml() - also doesn't work.
But standard php mail() func works well with such email body.
I found that in PHPMailer I need to set Body and AltBody separately. But then, what is the best way for me to parse such email body.
Maybe somebody knows a tool for it?
Or PHPMailer has a built in methods for it?
Maybe I need to just manually set correct "Content-Type" header (framework tells me correct Content-Type)
Thanks, in advance.
You don't need to think about those things - PHPMailer does it for you. This is all you need to do to make that structure:
$mail->isHTML();
$mail->Body = '<h1> This is my email </h1>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is my email';
$mail->addAttachment('path/to/file.pdf');
Also, the MIME structure in the example you gave for the message body with an attachment is incorrect, so I wouldn't expect it to work in any context.
What I want is to send raw header using SwiftMailer
Currently this is what I can do with SwiftMailer
// Create the message
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance();
$message->setSubject("This email is sent using Swift Mailer");
$message->setBody("You {fullname}, are our best client ever thanks " .
" to the {transactions} transactions you made with us.");
$message->setFrom("account#bank.com", "Your bank");
Using $message->setFrom() I can set the From field in the header but what I want is something like this
$rawHeader = 'MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="_=_swift_v4_1467746603_bb0677c43b2ba275b8602c907ef7228a_=_"
List-Unsubscribe: <http://go.proctorgallagher.com/unsubscribe/u/45802/41c5731bb75f7959e5880279725cb9b7b4f8996214976c36a0f93e36e88e7705/876424750>
X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse#pd25.com
x-job: 7215816_12853
--_=_swift_v4_1467746603_bb0677c43b2ba275b8602c907ef7228a_=_
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable'
$message->rawHeader($rawHeader);
Or something where I don't have to let the swiftmailer know that Content-Type is field and value is text/plain
I mean whatever I put get sent as it is don't have to put everything separately.
Have you tried:
$message->setBody("You {fullname}, are our best client ever thanks " .
" to the {transactions} transactions you made with us.", "text/plain", "utf-8");
App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email');
$Email = new CakeEmail();
$Email->to($emailContentArray['To']);
$Email->from(array($emailContentArray['From'] => Configure::read('FROM_NAME')));
$Email->subject($emailContentArray['Subject']);
$Email->emailFormat('both');
$response=$Email->send($emailContentArray['Body']);
if we check the resulting email it looks like:-
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="782f009f669cbcf2faafff59fe0eeb5d"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Identified-User: {:test25.xyzzzz.com:testttt.com} {sentby:program running on server}
--782f009f669cbcf2faafff59fe0eeb5d
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="alt-782f009f669cbcf2faafff59fe0eeb5d"
--alt-782f009f669cbcf2faafff59fe0eeb5d
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
<div>​<BR>Hi<BR><BR>Soon you will reach the action limit. To keep yourself updated please pay the payment.<BR><BR> Happy to have you<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Apps Team<BR>​</div>
--alt-782f009f669cbcf2faafff59fe0eeb5d
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
<div>​<BR>Hi<BR><BR>Soon you will reach the action limit. To keep yourself updated please pay the payment.<BR><BR> Happy to have you<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Apps Team<BR>​</div>
In text/plain the email should not show the html tags - how can I get both html and plain text to be sent correctly?
Encode the content and the subject in base64:
"=?utf-8?b?".base64_encode($s)."?=";
And before sending the emails don't forget to set the header:
'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64';
If I'm not wrong you can make to set header: $Email->setHeader('X-Content-Transfer-Encoding', 'base64');
You can take a look at Cakephp sending UTF-8 Emails and lineLength
And at http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-utility-libraries/email.html
I have a small "problem" with Zend_Mail_Storage_Imap and MultiPart Mails.
ContentType: multipart/alternative;
boundary=f46d043bd88a9f5d9004c87d2ad3
Part 1 has the Text of the Message, but with headers inside the content, so when i try
$part->getContent();
--f46d043bd88a9f5d9004c87d2ad3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hallo
is the result, how to extract the header information now?
Instead of:
$part->getContent();
do:
$part->getHeader();
to get Headers or if you want ONLY content then:
try:
while ($part->isMultipart()) {
$part = $message->getPart(1);
}
or
$message = $mail->getMessage($messageNum);
for content without body.
If issue persists, check your mail on mail client's like Gmail. Sometimes, we add header information twice (accidentally) whilst sending the mail.
Hope this helps :)
I'm using a PHP script to email a posting to Tumblr and Posterous. For Posterous special characters are showing up in the posting but for Tumblr it don't.
(In general Tumblr does support special character - I tried it out with emailing from Gmail)
So what could be the problem?
Here my PHP header:
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"
."Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-mixed-$bound_text\"\r\n";
$message = "--PHP-mixed-$bound_text\r\n"
."Content-Type: multipart/related; type=\"text/html\"; boundary=PHP-mixed2-$bound_text\r\n\r\n"
."--PHP-mixed2-$bound_text\r\n"
."Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"utf-8\"\r\n"
."Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n";
I already tried several charsets and Content-Transfer-Encoding combinations without any different result.
Any ideas are welcome.
Michael
I looked into how my GMail account sent it and found out it used windows-1252 for the charset and the text is base64 encoded (this may not be case in using other GMail accounts). The email I sent below was successfully posted by tumblr and I used the function utf8_decode to generate the correct base64 string.
$data = wordwrap(base64_encode(utf8_decode($stringWithSpecialCharacters)));
The raw email message is below:
To: myuploademail#tumblr.com
Subject: tumblr post from sudocode
from: omime class <script#sudocode.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=omime_1308940625_c0d4e36fd504619028804e8b23ceb12a
--omime_1308940625_c0d4e36fd504619028804e8b23ceb12a
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
38TW+eLq7vT76//mP9nCys4=
--omime_1308940625_c0d4e36fd504619028804e8b23ceb12a
Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
38TW+eLq7vT76//mP9nCys4=
--omime_1308940625_c0d4e36fd504619028804e8b23ceb12a--
I used my omime class to send the email and here's the code I used:
$email = new omime('alternative');
$email->attachText('ßÄÖùâêîôûëÿæœÙÂÊÎ');
$email->attachHTML('ßÄÖùâêîôûëÿæœÙÂÊÎ');
$email->send('mysecretuploademail#tumblr.com', 'test tumblr post', 'from: omime class <script#sudocode.net>');