emailing with attachment?

[westconn1]

is using a php script on a webserver a good option for sending multiple emails with large attachment?

currently uploading the attachment, from a local pc, multiple times, is very time consuming

how would i pass the emails from local pc program, with arguments, to php script?

thnx for any help

edit: i found some code here http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...31&postcount=9 to send an atttachment, but it appears the data is just in the body of the email, i am testing with a text file but the files to be attached would be pdf

[visualAd]

What exactly are you trying to do? Send a large file over the internet or attach a large file to an email.

I would not recommend sending emails with large attachments unless you have to. If you are sending an email with an attachment you need to use multi-part format (MIME). Because SMTP is a plain text protocol, the email body and any attachments must also be sent in text (even the binary ones).

phpman's post demonstrates how to format a multi-part message. Note that the payload of the attachment is encoded using base 64. This allows you to send the binary data in a format that is safe for transport in a text only medium.

[westconn1]

What exactly are you trying to do? Send a large file over the internet or attach a large file to an email.

i am trying to improve the emailing method, of sending individual emails with a common attachment (pdf price list) to multiple recipients (700 - 1000)
the current method uploads the same 700k to 1 mb attachment for each email,

i am looking for a method to send the attachment from the server, which seemed to need to send the email from the server

i attempted to attach a small text file to an email for testing purpose, but the email came with no attachment, but an amount of data in the body of the email, i am probably doing something wrong as i have no experience with PHP

[visualAd]

Show us the code you used and the source of the email you received. I am sure I or someone else can assist you from there

If you are sending the same attachment via email many times then you should upload the file once and save it locally on the server. You can then use PHP file system functions to open and read the data form the file for each email.

[westconn1]

at this stage i have just been sending email from an html form, this has been working ok, now i try to edit the php to add attachment, presuming i get that to work then i need to look at processing all the names and email address from a file or variable, and creating some sort of log, to track success /failures

// -------------------- END OF CONFIGURABLE SECTION ---------------
$headersep = (!isset( $uself ) || ($uself == 0)) ? "\r\n" : "\n" ;
$name = $_POST['name'] ;
$email = $_POST['email'] ;
$comments = $_POST['comments'] ;
$filename = "testfile.txt";
$http_referrer = getenv( "HTTP_REFERER" );
if (!isset($_POST['email'])) {
	header( "Location: $formurl" );
	exit ;
}
if (empty($name) || empty($email) || empty($comments)) {
   header( "Location: $errorurl" );
   exit ;
}
if ( ereg( "[\r\n]", $name ) || ereg( "[\r\n]", $email ) ) {
	header( "Location: $errorurl" );
	exit ;
}
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
	$comments = stripslashes( $comments );
}

//attachments
$userfile_type = "text";

//MIME code
$boundary = "b" . md5(uniqid(time()));
$mime_header = "Content-type: multipart/mixed;";
$mime_header .= "boundary = {$boundary}\r\n\r\n";
$mime_header .= "This is a mime encoded message.\r\n\r\n";

//First the regular message
$mime_message .= "--{$boundary}\r\n";
$mime_message .= "Content-type: {$userfile_type}\r\n";
$mime_message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$mime_message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n";
$mime_message .= "{$message}\r\n";

//Now the attachment
if(!($fp = @fopen($filename, "rb"))){
$error = "Can't open file";
echo $error;
exit;
}
$attach = fread($fp, filesize($filename));
$attach = chunk_split(base64_encode($attach));
$file_name = basename($filename); // gets basename of file

$mime_message .= "--$boundary\r\n";
$mime_message .= "Content-Type: $userfile_type; name=\"{$file_name}\"\r\n";
$mime_message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding:base64\r\n ";
$mime_message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"{$file_name}\"\r\n\r\n";
$mime_message  .= "\r\n\r\n$attach\n";
$mime_message .= "--{$boundary}--\r\n"; 


$messageproper =
	"This message was sent from:\n" .
	"$http_referrer\n" .
	"------------------------------------------------------------\n" .
	"Name of sender: $name\n" .
	"Email of sender: $email\n" .
	"------------------------- COMMENTS -------------------------\n\n" .
	$comments .
	"\n\n------------------------------------------------------------\n" .
        $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] .
	 "\n\n" .
        $mime_message;

mail($mailto, $subject,  $messageproper,
	"From: \"$name\" <$email>" . $headersep . "Reply-To: \"$name\" <$email>" . $headersep . "X-Mailer: 

chfeedback.php 2.08" );
header( "Location: $thankyouurl" );
exit ;

some of the urls are in the configurable section i omitted

Return-Path: <apache@************>
X-Original-To: ************
Delivered-To: ************
Received: from ************ (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
	by ************ (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA631F0480
	for <************>; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:25:39 +1100 (EST)
Received: (from apache@localhost)
	by ************ (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id mAUBPbxJ012060;
	Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:25:37 +1100
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:25:37 +1100
Message-Id: <200811301125.mAUBPbxJ012060@************>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Feedback Form
From: "pete" <************>
Reply-To: "pete" <************>
X-Mailer: chfeedback.php 2.08
MIME-Version: 1.0
MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1228649141.11647@hQQXj3aAIKQsEIa0OxVLcQ
X-Westconn-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information
X-MailScanner-ID: AA631F0480.558E8
X-Westconn-MailScanner: Found to be clean
X-Westconn-MailScanner-From: apache@************
Status: O
X-UID: 443828
Content-Length: 4128
X-Keywords:                                                                                                    
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 8.0.176 [270.9.11/1817]

This message was sent from:
http://************/feedback.html
------------------------------------------------------------
Name of sender: pete
Email of sender: [email protected]
------------------------- COMMENTS -------------------------

123

------------------------------------------------------------
61.69.168.171

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Content-type: text
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


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Content-Type: text; name="testfile.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding:base64
 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="testfile.txt"



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If you are sending the same attachment via email many times then you should upload the file once and save it locally on the server.

that is the general idea, the content of the email is quite small, but the attachment is not

i thought once i figured out enough php i would be able to process all the emails from one script, but i have a difficult time trying to work out why somthing does not work, unlike vb6 where i can see all kinds of stuff in the locals window in the IDE

thanx for the link to file functions