Multi part mail, how to?

Hi,

I'm building an Outlook clone in Flash for use online. It all works ok but to make it a bit better I would like it to send multipartmessages; html - plain text

I work with a flash made HTML editor that outputs HTML 1.0

I've found a PHP class online that converts HTML to plain text. What would I have to do to send messages multipart then, headers, mime type. Currently I use this:

PHP Code:

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$sender = "[email protected]";
$From = "From: Me myself <$sender>";
$Mime = "MIME-Version: 1.0";
$HTML = "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
mail("$toaddress","subject","$body","$From\n$Mime\n$HTML"); 


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Some more questions on multi-part; Not getting it really from php.net; How would I get the plain text from a multipart message and how should I 'extract' (make links from) attachments?

Thanks in advance :)

Hi,

I am using this code to send html mails:

Code:

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<?
class htmlmail
{      var $bndtime;
        var $boundary, $boundary2;
        var $id, $pid;
        var $cids;
        var $recip;
        function htmlmail($recip)
        {      $this->pid = posix_getpid();
                $this->bndtime = time();
                $this->boundary = "PART.BOUNDARY." . $this->pid . ".musicman." . $this->bndtime;
                $this->boundary2 = "PART.BOUNDARY.2." . $this->pid . ".musicman." . $this->bndtime;
                $this->id = 1;
                $this->cids = array();
                $this->recip = $recip;
        }
        function newid()
        {      $this->id++;
                return $this->pid . "_" . $this->bndtime . "_" . $this->id . "@musicman";
        }
        function gen_id($num)
        {      if(!isset($this->cids[$num]))
                        $this->cids[$num] = $this->newid();
                return "\"cid:" . $this->cids[$num] . "\"";
        }
        function sendhtml($from, $subject, $plain, $html, $files)
        {      $headers = "From: $from\nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-type: multipart/related;\n\ttype=\"multipart/alternative\";\n\tboundary=\"{$this->boundary}\"";
                $body = "tis is mime, ya know
since this was made with free software I do not use this space to suggest
buying a program

--{$this->boundary}
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary=\"{$this->boundary2}\"

--{$this->boundary2}
Content-type: text/plain

" . $plain . "\n\n";
                $html = preg_replace('/"CID(\d+)"/e', '$this->gen_id(\'\\1\')', $html);
                $body .= "--{$this->boundary2}
Content-type: text/html

$html

--{$this->boundary2}--

";
                for($n = 0 ; $n < count($files) ; $n++)
                {      $file = $files[$n];
                        if(isset($file[file]))
                        {      $name = ereg_replace(".*/", "", $file[file]);
                                $fname = $file[file];
                                $fp = fopen($fname, "r") or die("cannot open attachment $fname");
                                $data = fread($fp, filesize($fname));
                                fclose($fp);
                        }
                        else if(isset($file[data]))                        {      $data = $file[data];
                                $name = $file[name];
                        }
                        else
                                die('no file or data for attachment');
                        $body .= "--{$this->boundary}
Content-ID: <{$this->cids[$n+1]}>
Content-type: {$file[mime]}; name=\"{$name}\"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

" . chunk_split(base64_encode($data)) . "\n\n";
                }
                $body .= "--{$this->boundary}--

";
                mail($this->recip, $subject, $body, $headers);
        }
}
?>

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There is no provision in this code for generating html from plain, or vice versa. It does allow, however, to send in-memory data as attachments

Musicman

It gives me a warning :(

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /opt/guide/www.avviso.nl/HTML/mailmusicman.php on line 40

Parse error: parse error in /opt/guide/www.avviso.nl/HTML/mailmusicman.php on line 40

line40: $html = preg_replace('/"CID(\d+)"/e', '$this->gen_id('\\1')', $html);

Just to be sure, I take out $body and get that from posted vars from flash; $from and $recip and $subject just a posted var (?)

Not sure what you mean by:

send in-memory data as attachments

How would that work... I'm using a (converted script) that was intended to connect to pop3/imap and read out messages. Still struggling with attachments from the mailserver. Would those be in memory?

Thanks :)

Hi,

tge original code had some more backslashes
$html = preg_replace('/"CID(\d+)"/e', '$this->gen_id(\'\\1\')', $html);
maybe boldfacing prevents their removal ;)

To attach a file, you could use
$files = array(
array(file => 'xy.jpg', mime => 'image/jpeg'),
array(data => $myswf, name => 'generated.swf', mime => 'application/x-shockwave-flash')
);
This code was originally developed to create e-card swf on the fly and email it, so the swf would exists as a string. If you read data from mail server, you will more likely have them as strings within memory than as disk files.
The CID mimikry is meant for images etc. inside a html message

Musicman