how to send html mails using PEAR mail

php email pear

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Solution 1

If you follow this example there's no reason it shouldn't work:

<?php
include('Mail.php');
include('Mail/mime.php');

// Constructing the email
$sender = "Leigh <leigh@no_spam.net>";// Your name and email address
$recipient = "Leigh <leigh@no_spam.net>"; // The Recipients name and email address
$subject = "Test Email";// Subject for the email
$text = 'This is a text message.';// Text version of the email
$html = '<html><body><p>HTML message</p></body></html>';// HTML version of the email
$crlf = "\r\n";
$headers = array('From' => $sender, 'Return-Path' => $sender, 'Subject' => $subject);

// Creating the Mime message
$mime = new Mail_mime($crlf);

// Setting the body of the email
$mime->setTXTBody($text);
$mime->setHTMLBody($html);

$body = $mime->get();
$headers = $mime->headers($headers);

// Sending the email
$mail =& Mail::factory('mail');
$mail->send($recipient, $headers, $body);
?>

NOTE: in order for the above example to work one needs the Pear Mail Mime Package in addition the Pear Mail one. You can get the package here https://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime/download.

Solution 2

What do your headers look like? Here are mine:

$headers = array(
    'To' => $recipients,
    'From' => $adminEmail,
    'Subject' => $subject,
    'MIME-Version' => 1,
    'Content-type' => 'text/html;charset=iso-8859-1'
);

Solution 3

Please note that the example posted by karim79 has a header parameter that may cause you much grief: "Return-Path" - when I included this parameter like the example it prevented me from adding a from name, only a sender email address worked.

Specifically (when I added a debug param to see what was happening) there were extra angle brackets added around the from name so it tried to send this to the smtp server:

From: <from name <[email protected]>> or
From: <"from name" <[email protected]>> when I tried using quotes.
This caused the smtp connection to quit with an error of invalid address.

Also when using the mime_mail class you need to specify the "To:" parameter in the headers or it will appear to be sent to undisclosed addresses when you receive it. So replace the Return-Path param with a To param and it will work.

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Sakura

Updated on March 20, 2020

Comments

Sakura about 4 years
I am using PEAR mail system to send authenticated mails.I need to send HTML mails that has alinks.It was working fine before i started using PEAR mail.Now i am not able to send HTML mails.

mail body looks like this:
```
$body = <<<EOD

Hiya $username

You might be interested in the current 'haves' and 'wants' on example.com

Latest Haves
<a href="http://www.exmaple.com/product/have/64/Titan+Fast+Track+SunGlass">Titan Fast Track SunGlass</a>

EOD;
```
a tag appears as it is in the mail.Any idea how to solve this??Pls help..