PHP Sending Emails with File Attachments - Email Not Sending At All

Question

After trying to read various articles on sending emails with attachments in PHP (I am use to ASP with VBScript), I wrote the code below. Unfortunately, it does not work at all. Not only does it not send the email with the attachment, the email doesn't seem to send at all, even though my script says that it did send. Where have I gone wrong? I'm not using a form to upload a file. This is a static script.

<?php

$EmailTo = "Me@here.com";
$EmailFrom = "You@There.com";
$EmailSubject = "The Email Subject";

$MailBoundary = md5(uniqid(time()));

$Headers = "To: ". $EmailTo . "\r\n";
$Headers .= "From: ". $EmailFrom . "\r\n";
$Headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$Headers .= "Content-type: multipart/mixed;boundary=\"$MailBoundary \"";
$Headers .= "\r\n\r\n";
$Headers .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.";
$Headers .= "\r\n\r\n";

$FileAttachment = "AttachedFile.pdf";
$File = fopen($FileAttachment, "r");
$FileData = fread($File, filesize($FileAttachment));
$FileData = chunk_split(base64_encode($FileData));
$FileName = basename($FileAttachment);

$EmailBody = "--$MailBoundary\r\n";
$EmailBody .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$EmailBody .= "Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";

$EmailBody .= "<html>" . chr(13) .
              "<head>" . chr(13) .
              "<style>" . chr(13) .
              ".breg {font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;padding:5px;}" . chr(13) .
              "</style>" . chr(13) .
              "</head>" . chr(13) .
              "<body>" . chr(13) .
              "<div class=" . chr(34) . "breg" . chr(34) . ">" . chr(13) .
              "The message text body goes here" . chr(13) .
              "</div>" . chr(13) .
              "</body>" . chr(13) .
              "</html>";

$EmailBody .= "--$MailBoundary\r\n";


$EmailBody .= "Content-type: " . mime_content_type($File) . "; name=$FileName\r\n";
$EmailBody .= "Content-transfer-encoding:base64\r\n\r\n";
$EmailBody .= $FileData. "\r\n\r\n";

$EmailBody .= " --$MailBoundary--";

if (mail($EmailTo, $EmailSubject, $EmailBody, $Headers))
{
 echo "Email to " . $EmailTo . " has been sent" . chr(13) . "<br />" . chr(13);
}
else
{
 echo "<b>Email to " . $EmailTo . " was not sent</b>" . chr(13) . "<br />" . chr(13);
}

?>

Have you tried stripping all the extra stuff out, and just sending a minimal email to make sure that the mail call is working properly? If that works, you can slowly add functionality back in until you find the part that stops it working. — andrewsi, Jun 12 '12 at 20:32
I would stop trying with php mail() its very underpowered, have a look at phpmailer or another calss — , Jun 12 '12 at 20:34
maybe you should use PHPMailer class instead!? google for this one — Yang, Jun 12 '12 at 20:35
Yes, I can just send a basic email. So I know mail() is working — Soren, Jun 12 '12 at 20:47
I have no idea if PHPMailer is available on the server I am working with. — Soren, Jun 12 '12 at 20:53
Do you have any way of looking at the mail logs on the receiving server? Also, do `error_reporting(-1)` in PHP and see if it says anything interesting when you execute it. — Mike, Jun 12 '12 at 21:00
It works for me only when i put the double quotes around charset: `"Content-Type:text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"".$eol` - without quotes, there isn't any error, but the mail will be not sent!!! — deblocker, Dec 13 '17 at 16:03

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '12 at 04:49

For sending mail with attachment using php mail().Try this code:

<?php

 //If there is no error, send the email
 if(isset($_POST['ur_submit_button_name'])) {
  $EmailTo = "Me@here.com";
  $EmailFrom = "You@There.com";
  $EmailSubject = "The Email Subject";


  $separator = md5(time());

  // carriage return type (we use a PHP end of line constant)
  $eol = PHP_EOL;

  // attachment name
  $filename = "ip.zip";//store that zip file in ur root directory
  $attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('ip.zip')));

  // main header
  $headers  = "From: ".$from.$eol;
  $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0".$eol; 
  $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"".$separator."\"";

  // no more headers after this, we start the body! //

  $body = "--".$separator.$eol;
  $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit".$eol.$eol;
  $body .= "This is a MIME encoded message.".$eol;

  // message
  $body .= "--".$separator.$eol;
  $body .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"".$eol;
  $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol;
  $body .= $message.$eol;

  // attachment
  $body .= "--".$separator.$eol;
  $body .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=\"".$filename."\"".$eol; 
  $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol;
  $body .= "Content-Disposition: attachment".$eol.$eol;
  $body .= $attachment.$eol;
  $body .= "--".$separator."--";

  // send message
  if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
  $mail_sent=true;
  echo "mail sent";
  } else {
  $mail_sent=false;
  echo "Error,Mail not sent";

 }
}

?>

great! It worked for me only after i noticed your double quotes around charset: `"Content-Type:text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"".$eol` — deblocker, Dec 13 '17 at 16:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '12 at 13:18

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i think you have an error in your email content, generate your email content with imap_mail_compose function:

mail('', 'message subject', '', imap_mail_compose(array header, array body));

answered Jun 22 '12 at 13:18

mohammad falahat

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