Introduction

Introduction -- A overview about Mail

Sending EMails

Mail provides a API to send emails on different ways. You may think this class isn't neccassery because of mail() . But this function limited to a local installed sendmail-compatible program. The class gives you the freedom to choose different backends for sending mails. So you can easily create a transportable application which is not bind to a working mail()-function on the host computer.

Working with multipart messages and MIME messages

Especially in business enviroments, customers expect well formated emails including attachments. The Mail_Mime-classes offers you function to create and process MIME-formated emails easily.

Working with email addresses

Dealing with email addresses is not easy. But validating and processing email address is often a typical part of a web application. Mail_RFC822 helps you to analyse email-addresses according to RFC 822.