Sending Email from your PHP Applications

Sending Email from your PHP Applications: "Sending Email from your PHP Applications
By W. Jason Gilmore
February 4, 2005


Communicating with website users via email is crucial to the success of any online service. The ability to deliver registration confirmations and newsletters, provide a convenient and relatively secure password recovery tool, and keep clients updated with shipping status reports are just a few of the reasons for incorporating email-based features into your website infrastructure. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to incorporate email delivery capabilities into your PHP applications via both its native mail command and a great third-party extension called HTML Mime Mail. I'll conclude the article with a few pointers regarding how to most efficiently carry out bulk email delivery."