Author: masnun

PHP

A PHP Mailer Class

UPDATE: Added application of the basename() function to the attached filenames to get the filenames only.

This php class lets you attach multiple files and send emails via Postfix without digging into the messy headers 😀

<?php
class Mailer {
    function __construct($to="",$from="",$sub="",$msg="",$files=array()) {
        $this->to = $to;
        $this->from = $from;
        $this->sub = $sub;
        $this->msg = $msg;
        $this->files = $files;
    }

    function attachFile($file) {
        if(!empty($file)) {
            $this->files[] = $file;
        }
    }


    function setMessage($msg) {
        if(!empty($msg)) {
            $this->msg = $msg;
        }
    }


    function setTo($to) {
        if(!empty($to)) {
            $this->to = $to;
        }
    }


    function setFrom($from) {
        if(!empty($from)) {
            $this->from = $from;
        }
    }


    function setSubject($sub) {
        if(!empty($sub)) {
            $this->sub = $sub;
        }
    }


    function sendMail() {

        $files = $this->files;

// email fields: to, from, subject, and so on
        $to = $this->to;
        $from = $this->from;
        $subject = $this->sub;
        $message = $this->msg;

        $headers = "From: $from ";

// boundary
        $semi_rand = md5(time());
        $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

// headers for attachment
        $headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

// multipart boundary
        $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";
        $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";

// preparing attachments
        for($x=0;$x<count($files);$x++) {
            $file = fopen($files[$x],"rb");
            $data = fread($file,filesize($files[$x]));
            fclose($file);
            $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
            $message .= "Content-Type: {\"application/octet-stream\"};\n" . " name=\"$files[$x]\"\n" .
                    "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . " filename=\"".basename($files[$x])."\"\n" .
                    "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . $data . "\n\n";
            $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";
        }

// send

        $ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
        return $ok;
    }
}
?>

<?php

class Mailer {

function __construct($to="",$from="",$sub="",$msg="",$files=array()) {

$this->to = $to;

$this->from = $from;

$this->sub = $sub;

$this->msg = $msg;

$this->files = $files;

}

function attachFile($file) {

if(!empty($file)) {

$this->files[] = $file;

}

function setMessage($msg) {

if(!empty($msg)) {

$this->msg = $msg;

}

function setTo($to) {

if(!empty($to)) {

$this->to = $to;

}

function setFrom($from) {

if(!empty($from)) {

$this->from = $from;

}

function setSubject($sub) {

if(!empty($sub)) {

$this->sub = $sub;

}

function sendMail() {

$files = $this->files;

// email fields: to, from, subject, and so on

$to = $this->to;

$from = $this->from;

$subject = $this->sub;

$message = $this->msg;

$headers = "From: $from ";

// boundary

$semi_rand = md5(time());

$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

// headers for attachment

$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

// multipart boundary

$message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" . "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";

$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";

// preparing attachments

for($x=0;$x<count($files);$x++) {

$file = fopen($files[$x],"rb");

$data = fread($file,filesize($files[$x]));

fclose($file);

$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

$message .= "Content-Type: {\"application/octet-stream\"};\n" . " name=\"$files[$x]\"\n" .

"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" . " filename=\"".basename($files[$x])."\"\n" .

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . $data . "\n\n";

$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n";

}

// send

$ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

return $ok;

}

Example USE:

<?php
include("mailer.php");
$m = new Mailer();
$m->setTo("maSnun <masnun@gmail.com>");
$m->setFrom("phpGeek <masnun@leevio.com>");
$m->setSubject("A bunch of files");
$m->setMessage("Hello buddy! Files attached!");
$m->attachFile("images/Screenshot.png");

if($m->sendMail()) { echo "Sent \n"; } else { echo "failed \n"; }
?>

<?php

include("mailer.php");

$m = new Mailer();

$m->setTo("maSnun <masnun@gmail.com>");

$m->setFrom("phpGeek <masnun@leevio.com>");

$m->setSubject("A bunch of files");

$m->setMessage("Hello buddy! Files attached!");

$m->attachFile("images/Screenshot.png");

if($m->sendMail()) { echo "Sent \n"; } else { echo "failed \n"; }

Happy Mailing! 😀

Python

Python: Sending a bunch of images as email attachments

Post author By masnun
Post date December 29, 2009
1 Comment on Python: Sending a bunch of images as email attachments

Python is just beautiful! In my last post I mentioned how you can setup an email server. Now, here’s the code I use to send a bunch of images as attachments with my outgoing emails. This code snippet was taken from the Python manual. But unfortunately the code was not complete. So, I had to hack through it and configure it to suit my needs.

#!/usr/bin/python

import smtplib,glob,os
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

COMMASPACE = ', '


msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = 'Our family reunion'
me = "masnun@leevio.com"
family = ['masnun@gmail.com','jotil21@gmail.com']
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(family)
msg.preamble = 'Our family reunion'

path = "images/"
pngfiles = glob.glob( os.path.join(path, "*.png") )
for file in pngfiles:
    # Open the files in binary mode.  Let the MIMEImage class automatically
    # guess the specific image type.
    fp = open(file, 'rb')
    img = MIMEImage(fp.read())
    fp.close()
    msg.attach(img)

# Send the email via our own SMTP server.
s = smtplib.SMTP("localhost")
s.sendmail(me, family, msg.as_string())
s.quit()

#!/usr/bin/python

import smtplib,glob,os

from email.mime.image import MIMEImage

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

COMMASPACE = ', '

msg = MIMEMultipart()

msg['Subject'] = 'Our family reunion'

me = "masnun@leevio.com"

family = ['masnun@gmail.com','jotil21@gmail.com']

msg['From'] = me

msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(family)

msg.preamble = 'Our family reunion'

path = "images/"

pngfiles = glob.glob( os.path.join(path, "*.png") )

for file in pngfiles:

# Open the files in binary mode. Let the MIMEImage class automatically

# guess the specific image type.

fp = open(file, 'rb')

img = MIMEImage(fp.read())

fp.close()

msg.attach(img)

# Send the email via our own SMTP server.

s = smtplib.SMTP("localhost")

s.sendmail(me, family, msg.as_string())

s.quit()

It currently reads the “images” directory and mails out the png files. But if you look at the codes, you’ll see that the codes can be easily changed to send other files as well 🙂

I love Python!

PS: I am looking for a good way to attach files using PHP. The way I found was messy! I know the huge PHP community certainly has something better to offer. I will post it as soon as I find it 🙂

Uncategorized

Setting Up Email Server on your PC

Post author By masnun
Post date December 29, 2009

If you setup an email server on your PC, you can easily send unlimited emails with a custom “From” address 🙂 This is particularly helpful if you want to send emails programmatically for some reasons (I like to send unimportant emails and small attachments via Python).

To setup a mail server on Ubuntu, just install the “postfix” package:

sudo apt-get install postfix

1	sudo apt-get install postfix

Now you can send emails with php, python or even by typing codes on the terminal.

It was simple. Wasn’t it?

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