Table of Contents
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Sending via SMTP
- 12.3. Sending Multiple Mails per SMTP Connection
- 12.4. Using Different Transports
- 12.5. HTML E-Mail
- 12.6. Attachments
- 12.7. Adding Recipients
- 12.8. Controlling the MIME Boundary
- 12.9. Additional Headers
- 12.10. Character Sets
- 12.11. Encoding
- 12.12. SMTP Authentication
Zend_Mail provides generalized functionality to compose and send both text and MIME-compliant
multipart e-mail messages. Mail can be sent with Zend_Mail via the php built-in
mail() function or via direct SMTP connection.
Example 12.1. Simple E-Mail with Zend_Mail
A simple e-mail consists of some recipients, a subject, a body and a sender. To send such a mail using
the PHP mail() function, do the following:
<?php
require_once 'Zend/Mail.php';
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->setBodyText('This is the text of the mail.');
$mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Some Sender');
$mail->addTo('[email protected]', 'Some Recipient');
$mail->setSubject('TestSubject');
$mail->send();
?>
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In order to send an e-mail with Zend_Mail you have to specify at least one recipient, a
sender (e.g., with setFrom()), and a message body (text and/or HTML).
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For most mail attributes there are "get" methods to read the information stored in the mail object. For
further details, please refer to the API documentation. A special one is getRecipients().
It returns an array with all recipient e-mail addresses that were added prior to the method call.
For security reasons, Zend_Mail filters all header fields to prevent header injection with
newline (\n) characters.