imap_mail

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

imap_mail — Send an email message

说明

imap_mail(
    string $to,
    string $subject,
    string $message,
    ?string $additional_headers = null,
    ?string $cc = null,
    ?string $bcc = null,
    ?string $return_path = null
): bool

This function allows sending of emails with correct handling of Cc and Bcc receivers.

The parameters to, cc and bcc are all strings and are all parsed as » RFC822 address lists.

参数

to: The receiver
subject: The mail subject
message: The mail body, see imap_mail_compose()
additional_headers: As string with additional headers to be set on the mail
cc
bcc: The receivers specified in bcc will get the mail, but are excluded from the headers.
return_path: Use this parameter to specify return path upon mail delivery failure. This is useful when using PHP as a mail client for multiple users.

返回值

成功时返回 true，或者在失败时返回 false。

更新日志

版本	说明
8.0.0	`additional_headers`, `cc`, `bcc`, and `return_path` are now nullable.

参见

mail() - 发送邮件
imap_mail_compose() - Create a MIME message based on given envelope and body sections

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User Contributed Notes 4 notes

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Patanjali ¶

4 years ago


In response to Mathias Rav's comment.

While imap_mail might have this $rpath bug, it is hardly comparable to mail, because mail only uses the default send mail server account, and not a real mailbox, which you can programmatically interrogate and clean up.

Using the imap extension allows proper mail management and operation, like users not getting the cryptic server account name followed by 'on behalf of' the 'From' address that mail sourced emails show on some recipient clients.

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Mathias Rav ¶

12 years ago


As per http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=30688 the $rpath argument is ignored, and since the (as of now) 4 year old bug is tagged WONTFIX in the bug tracker, this function is effectively deprecated in favour of mail().

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bandpay at hotmail dot com ¶

21 years ago


Extending the above note.

When the socket connection is stablished, it works exactly as if you had openned a telnet connection to the news server. If you don't know what kind of headers you have to send to the news server, then I'll suggest that you better give it a try and play with a telnet connection like this:


telenet news.servername.com 119


eaxmple:


telnet news.euroconnect.dk 119

Trying 195.184.44.30...

Connected to news.euroconnect.net (195.184.44.30).

Escape character is '^]'.

200 news.euroconnect.net (Typhoon v1.2.1)


then you'll receive confirmation from the server that you are connected. Now type "help" and enter, and you'll see what commands are supported.


eaxmle:


help

100 Legal Commands

  article [<messageid>|number]

  authinfo type value

  body [<messageid>|number]

  date

  group newsgroup

  head [<messageid>|number]

  help

  last

  list [active wildmat|active.times|counts wildmat]

  list [overview.fmt|newsgroups wildmat]

  listgroup newsgroup

  mode reader

  newgroups yyyymmdd hhmmss [GMT]

  newnews newsgroups yyyymmdd hhmmss [GMT]

  next

  post

  stat [<messageid>|number]

  xhdr field [range]

  xover [range]

  xpat field range pattern

  quit


If you want to post a message, you can start by entring the "post" command.


example:


post

340 Send Article to be Posted


From here you can start to enter the header information.

The most important headers are:

From:

Subject:

Newsgroup:


after the ":" a "white space" must follow.


If you are posting the multipart message then remember 


MIME-Version: 1.0


This one is also one of the important headers when you are posting a multipart message. The boundary must follow the content type in the same line.


Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------4A11A9ABCFCA70DD4E0C3605"


Take a look at the article below to find out more about headers and packing of the message.


http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/kartic20000807.php3

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uphonesimon at gmail dot com ¶

16 years ago


make sure you've correctly setup the SMTP parameters in php.ini
and aslo make sure that the SMTP server accepts relay

for some mail servers, you have to open up an imap stream, log in, and then you can send mail through imap_mail

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