PEAR::Mail_Mime library

[Jay Taylor]

Greetings,

The PEAR::Mail library works fine..no it works GREAT for sending plaintext
messages (without any attachments). However, when I recently had to create
a little script to send emails with logfile attachments, I started by trying
to use PEAR::Mime_Mail. I am left wondering if this library is actually
not intended for allowing one to compose email messages with attachments and
serves some other obscure purpose. I had so much difficulty getting it to
work that I ended up having to go find a different library to do what I
needed. The alternative I found was htmlMimeMail15, which is available from
http://www.phpguru.org/static/htmlMimeMail5.html.

The htmlMimeMail library seems very similar PEAR::Mail/PEAR::Mail_Mime,
except that you can add attachments without having to know the intimate
inner workings of the MIME/email formats, encoding, and/or protocols. It
also had clear documententation with good examples (compared to Mail_Mime)
(I would love to help PEAR with the documentation for Mail_Mime, but that
would be difficult seeing as how I am unable to get it to work myself).

Is it possible that another PEAR package needs to created on top of
Mail_Mime to further abstract the large amount of nitty gritty protocol
details that PEAR::Mail_Mime requires? Or perhaps the mistake is simply on
my end due to the confusing documentation? Or is this package intended for
some other purpose than sending emails with attachments? Regardless..I just
wanted to find out if there is some way we can turn this thing around..

Best,
Jay Taylor

[Cipriano Groenendal]

Jay,

Post by Jay Taylor
The PEAR::Mail library works fine..no it works GREAT for sending plaintext
messages (without any attachments). However, when I recently had to create
a little script to send emails with logfile attachments, I started by trying
to use PEAR::Mime_Mail. I am left wondering if this library is actually
not intended for allowing one to compose email messages with attachments and
serves some other obscure purpose. I had so much difficulty getting it to
work that I ended up having to go find a different library to do what I
needed.

Did you follow the example in the docs at
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail-mime.example.php ?
I've send, literally hundreds of thousands of (non-spam ;) ) mails using
Mail_mime, many with attachments, and I've never had a problem in doing so.

If you did follow the example, I'd love to see what went wrong, as you may
have found a bug.