NYCPHP Meetup

[Russ Demarest]

I was recently turned on to PHPMailer. Nice and easy to handle a lot  
of mail issues.

http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/


On Nov 14, 2005, at 8:16 AM, Hans Zaunere wrote:

>
>
> David Mintz wrote on Thursday, November 10, 2005 4:47 PM:
>> Planning to roll my own MySQL/PHP-based mass emailer. Why? Because  
>> the
>> recipient list isn't a semi-static, monolithic thing. The admin user
>> needs to be able to select subsets of people/addresses from a
>> database based on various criteria.  (This is your chance to point me
>> to an existing (free) tool that can do or be adapted to do this -- I
>> haven't found any.)
>
> Hey, these are always fun things to write :)
>
>> So here's my (first) question:  What constitutes a well-formed HTML
>> email body? Is there a "right" way -- other than getting the MIME
>> headers right? I would assume that your email body should be just
>> like the BODY element of any valid HTML document -- a regular HTML
>> document minus the HEAD element.
>
> The MIME headers are critical.  IIRC, Thunderbird forms good  
> headers.  Send
> yourself a big complicated HTML message, then view the raw source.   
> The HTML
> is standard HTML - but the headers dictate how things should be  
> read, and of
> course you should have an alternate part in plain text.
>
>> Hopefully I can make this a well-made and abstract enough beast to
>> merit sharing once it's done.
>
> That'd be great - when you get to a sticky spot (like sending large  
> amounts
> of email from a web server) let us know how things go.
>
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