(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8) mail — Send mail Descriptionmail( Parametersto Receiver, or receivers of the mail. The formatting of this string must comply with » RFC 2822. Some examples are:
subject Subject of the email to be sent. message Message to be sent. Each line should be separated with a CRLF (\r\n). Lines should not be larger than 70 characters. Caution (Windows only) When PHP is talking to a SMTP server directly, if a full stop is found on the start of a line, it is removed. To counter-act this, replace these occurrences with a double dot.
additional_headers (optional)String or array to be inserted at the end of the email header. This is typically used to add extra headers (From, Cc, and Bcc). Multiple extra headers should be separated with a CRLF (\r\n). If outside data are used to compose this header, the data should be sanitized so that no unwanted headers could be injected. If an array is passed, its keys are the header names and its values are the respective header values.
additional_params (optional) The This parameter is escaped by escapeshellcmd() internally to prevent command execution. escapeshellcmd() prevents command execution, but allows to add additional parameters. For security reasons, it is recommended for the user to sanitize this parameter to avoid adding unwanted parameters to the shell command. Since escapeshellcmd() is applied automatically, some characters that are allowed as email addresses by internet RFCs cannot be used. mail() can not allow such characters, so in programs where the use of such characters is required, alternative means of sending emails (such as using a framework or a library) is recommended. The user that the webserver runs as should be added as a trusted user to the sendmail configuration to prevent a 'X-Warning' header from being added to the message when the envelope sender (-f) is set using this method. For sendmail users, this file is /etc/mail/trusted-users. Return Values Returns It is important to note that just because the mail was accepted for delivery, it does NOT mean the mail will actually reach the intended destination. Changelog
ExamplesExample #1 Sending mail. Using mail() to send a simple email:
Example #2 Sending mail with extra headers. The addition of basic headers, telling the MUA the From and Reply-To addresses:
Example #3 Sending mail with extra headers as array This example sends the same mail as the example immediately above, but passes the additional headers as array (available as of PHP 7.2.0).
Example #4 Sending mail with an additional command line parameter. The
Example #5 Sending HTML email It is also possible to send HTML email with mail().
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';// Message
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mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); Mark Simon ¶ 3 years ago
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