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Commandline PHP emailer

A nice commandline PHP emailer (can be adapted for sites), derived primarily from code at http://php.net.

Worthy of note:

  • Use of $HOSTNAME to get the name of the host. This is good for commandline when the $_SERVER variables aren’t available.
  • Separate text and HTML source files, normally, text would be derived from HTML with strip_tags.

<?php

if ($argc < 4)
die('Usage: <destination email address> <text file> <html file>'."\n");

$sHost=trim(shell_exec('echo $HOSTNAME'));
$fromname='no-reply';
$fromaddress='no-reply@'.$sHost;

$sTo=$argv[1];
$sTextFile=$argv[2];
$sHTMLFile=$argv[3];

$boundary='=_'.time();

$plain=file_get_contents($sTextFile);

$html=file_get_contents($sHTMLFile);

/* Courtesy of: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php#77405 - Modified slightly */

$eol="\r\n";
$mime_boundary=md5(time());

# Common Headers
$headers .= "From: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
$headers .= "Return-Path: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol; // these two to set reply address
$headers .= "Message-ID: <".time()."-".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion().$eol; // These two to help avoid spam-filters

# Boundry for marking the split & Multitype Headers
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'.$eol;
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\"".$eol.$eol;

# Open the first part of the mail
$msg = "--".$mime_boundary.$eol;

$htmlalt_mime_boundary = $mime_boundary."_htmlalt"; //we must define a different MIME boundary for this section
# Setup for text OR html -
$msg .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"".$htmlalt_mime_boundary."\"".$eol.$eol;

# Text Version
$msg .= "--".$htmlalt_mime_boundary.$eol;
$msg .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol;
$msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;
# $msg .= strip_tags(str_replace("<br>", "\n", substr($body, (strpos($body, "<body>")+6)))).$eol.$eol;
$msg .=$plain.$eol.$eol;

# HTML Version
$msg .= "--".$htmlalt_mime_boundary.$eol;
$msg .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol;
$msg .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;
$msg .= $html.$eol.$eol;

//close the html/plain text alternate portion
$msg .= "--".$htmlalt_mime_boundary."--".$eol.$eol;
# Finished
$msg .= "--".$mime_boundary."--".$eol.$eol; // finish with two eol's for better security. see Injection.

# SEND THE EMAIL
$mail_sent = mail($sTo, "Test From $sHost", $msg, $headers);

?>

Risks of HTML emails: http://www.mailchimp.com/resources/top10_html_email_mistakes.phtml

Recommending testing prior to production release
Receipt of emails on all major email clients
http://fingerprintapp.com/email-client-stats

PHP, LAMP
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