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The general opinion when it comes to sending email messages in PHP is to stay clear of PHP's built-in mail() function and to use a library instead.

What I want to know are the actual reasons and flaws in using mail() over a library or extension. For example, the commonly specified headers that aren't included in a standard mail() call.

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Disadvantages of the PHP mail() function

In some cases, mails send via PHP mail() did not receive the recipients although it was send by WB without any error message. The most common reasons for that issue are listed below.

  • wrong format of mail header or content (e.g. differences in line break between Windows/Unix)
  • sendmail not installed or configured on your server (php.ini)
  • the mail provider of the recipeint does not allow mails send by PHP mail(); common spam protection

Errors in the format of header or content can cause that mails are treated as SPAM. In the best case, such mails are transfered to the spam folder of your recipient inbox or send back to the sender. In the worst case, such mails are deleted without any comment. If sendmail is not installed or not configured, no mails can be send at all.

It is common practice by free mail provider such as GMX, to reject mails send via the PHP function mail(). Very often such mails are deleted without any information of the recipient.

Sunday, August 7, 2022
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You have $headers .= '...'; followed by $headers = '...';; the second line is overwriting the first.

Just put the $headers .= "Bcc: $emailListrn"; say after the Content-type line and it should be fine.

On a side note, the To is generally required; mail servers might mark your message as spam otherwise.

$headers  = "From: no-reply@thepartyfinder.co.ukrn" .
  "X-Mailer: phprn";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1rn";
$headers .= "Bcc: $emailListrn";
Sunday, December 25, 2022
5

PHPMailer is the best to use for email.

checkout some below links which will help you in future also:

  1. File Attachments in PHP Mail with PHPMailer
  2. php mailer attachments
  3. attachments using phpMailer
  4. PHPMailer Tutorial
  5. A Simple Example : Sending Email with Attachment Using Phpmailer
  6. PHP send email with multiple attachments with PHPMailer with SMTP Authentication
  7. Sending email with multiple attachments with PHP

may this help you.

Saturday, November 5, 2022
 
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The function declaration is magic and causes its identifier to be bound before anything in its code-block* is executed.

This differs from an assignment with a function expression, which is evaluated in normal top-down order.

If you changed the example to say:

var internalFoo = function() { return true; };

it would stop working.

The function declaration is syntactically quite separate from the function expression, even though they look almost identical and can be ambiguous in some cases.

This is documented in the ECMAScript standard, section 10.1.3. Unfortunately ECMA-262 is not a very readable document even by standards-standards!

*: the containing function, block, module or script.

Wednesday, August 10, 2022
 
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auto p1 = &f;     // ok
auto p2 = f;      // ok

The first is more or less the right thing. But because non-member functions have implicit conversions to pointers, the & isn't necessary. C++ makes that conversion, same applies to static member functions.

To quote from cppreference:

An lvalue of function type T can be implicitly converted to a prvalue pointer to that function. This does not apply to non-static member functions because lvalues that refer to non-static member functions do not exist.

Saturday, September 10, 2022
 
evgen
 
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