(PHP) Email attachment

corblimey

I'm trying to send an email via PHP's mail() command with a file attachment. Strangely, the file attaches just fine, but there's no message, just the attachment. Can anyone spot anything I've done wrong?

$headers  = "From: $from\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Reply-To: $from\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: $from\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP4\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n"; 
$headers .= "Return-Path: <$from>\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related; type=\"multipart/alternative\"; boundary=\"----=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\"\n"; 
$headers .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n";
$headers .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message \n"; 
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"----=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\"\n"; 
    
$message = "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n"; 
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n"; 
$message .= "\n"; 

$message .= "message goes here\n";
$message .= "\n"; 
$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts--\n"; 
$message .= "\n"; 
$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\n"; 
$message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\n\tname=\"" . $attachment . "\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n\tfilename=\"" . $attachment_name . "\"\n\n";
$message .= $data; //The base64 encoded message
$message .= "\n"; 
$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message--\n";

OfflerCrocGod

Have you tested this with different mail programs?

corblimey

Thanks, but after checking other php code, it seems that I got the headers a bit mucked up. Got it fixed now. Cheers

philologos

can you show us the correct version by any chance. What are you intending to do with this? make an email client or something. The imap functions can get down POP3 mail so it would be a good idea.

corblimey

Jakkass wrote:

can you show us the correct version by any chance. What are you intending to do with this? make an email client or something. The imap functions can get down POP3 mail so it would be a good idea.

I have the following working:

$headers  = "From: $l_from\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Reply-To: $l_from\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: $l_from\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP4\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n"; //1 = Urgent, 3 = Normal
$headers .= "Return-Path: <$l_from>\n"; 

$boundary = "====_xxxx_mail_generator_" . md5(uniqid(srand(time()))) . "====";  
$sMIME = getMIMEType($attach);
		
$headers .= "Content-type: multipart/mixed;\n\tboundary=\"$boundary\"\n";  
    
$message = "\nThis is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n" ;
$message .= "\n--$boundary\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/html;\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n\n";

$message .= "$body\n";
$message .= "\n--$boundary\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: $sMIME;\n";
$message .= "\tname=\"$attach_name\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n";
$message .= "\tfilename=\"$attach_name\"\n\n";
$message .= $data . "\n";
$message .= "\n\n--$boundary--";

The code is only in use for a client so that users can send attachments to them via email.