Posted by J.O. Aho on 12/20/07 12:50

James A wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone could please help. I would like to use PHP to send
> MIME format emails (with binary attachments). But I have to do this without
> the use of the mail mime PEAR package? We are on PHP 4.2.2 and we cannot
> change that, and we cannot install that PEAR package due to our web hosting.
> I came across one possibility
> http://www.sitepoint.com/print/advanced-email-php but it required PHP 5 as
> it uses the PHP function chunk_split.

I suggest you look at the user comments on

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

You will get a good hint of how to make a script that handles binary data too.

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//Aho

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