PHP Mail Headers

Question

Essentially what I\'m trying to do is attach a file to an email I\'m sending out. Simple enough, right? For some reason or another it does not like the following code (presu

Answer 1

The Geekmail PHP library makes it easy to add attachments to emails (and to send emails in general):

$geekMail = new geekMail();
$geekMail->setMailType('text');
$geekMail->from("noreply@x.com");
$geekMail->to($to_email);
$geekMail->subject($subject);
$geekMail->message($message);
$geekMail->attach($filename);
if (!$geekMail->send()){
  //an error occurred sending the email
  $errors = $geekMail->getDebugger();
}

Answer 2

You don't seem to populate destination address (in the code sample) and you have your message both in headers (that definitely extends further than headers) and in body…

Answer 3

If you insist on building your own header, I would suggest doing so with the aid of your output buffer - also I noticed that you were failing to close up your content boundaries. Pasted below is how I would edit the header generating part of your script.

ob_start();

?>
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: noreply@x.com
Reply-To: noreply@x.com
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="<?php echo $uid; ?>"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--<?php echo $uid; ?>
Content-Type:text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<?php echo $message; ?>

--<?php echo $uid; ?>--
--<?php echo $uid; ?>
Content-Type: text/csv; name="<?php echo $filename; ?>"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="<?php echo $filename; ?>"

<?php echo $content; ?>

--<?php echo $uid; ?>--
<?php

$header = trim(ob_get_clean());

Answer 4

Please please please don't build your own MIME emails. Use PHPMailer or Swiftmailer, which do almost everything for you. You can replace you entire script with about 5 or 6 lines of code.

And best of all, they'll give you far better error messages/diagnostics than the pathetically stupid mail() function ever will.