Sending Email

Overview
Objective

Learn how to send email and various email headers in

ProdigyView.

Requirements

 Installed mailer on your server

Estimated Time

10 Minutes

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 Follow Along With Code
Example
1. Download a copy of the example code at
www.prodigyview.com/source.
2. Install the system in an environment you feel comfortable testing
in.
3. Proceed to examples/util/Mail.php
 Sending Emails in PHP
makes me feel like this

The Bad News: This kid is scarred for life.

The Good News: Sending emails with multiple headers in PHP
will no longer be a scarring event
 SMTP and PHP Mail
ProdigyView supports sending email over SMTP and the regular
PHP mailer.
This tutorial is about the basics attributes of sending email
through either method. We will cover mail functions such as
 Carbon Copies
 Blinded Copies
 Message ID
 Errors To
 Reply To
 Html vs Text Emails
 File Attachments
 Required Fields
The three required fields when sending an email are
 Receiver: The email address will be receiving the message
 Subject: The subject line of the email
 Message: The message going in the email.
Those three fields can be set like below.
 Sender
This is not a required, but this field should be included.
The sender is the email address that email is coming
from.

Sender’s email address

 Carbon and Blind Copy
Sending an email carbon copies and blind copies is a
common function. Emails listed in the carbon copy field
will be seen by all receipts. Emails listed in the blind copy
will receive the email and who it was sent too, but others
will not know it was sent to them.

Carbon Copy

Blind Copy
 Reply To
The Reply To is the default email address that the
receiver will reply to when an email is received.

Reply To Email
 Errors To
Errors To is an option that if there is an error when
sending an email, such as the host not available, an error
message will be sent to a designated recipient.

Errors To Email
 Message ID
The message ID is an id on the email sent. It can be a
tool used later to track emails.

Message ID
 Html Email vs Text Email
Normally, when you send an email in ProdigyView, there are
two versions automatically created for you, text and html.

Text Version is
created. Html Tags
are stripped.

Email is sent
PVMail::sendMail()

HTML version is
left as is.
 HTML/Text Emails
HTML emails are for web clients that can receive html
templates in the email. If the client cannot, the text version of
the mail will be displayed. We can also manually define th html
message and the text message.

HTML message

Text message
 Attachment
Sending attached with PHP mail can be easily
accomplished by setting the file location of the file when
sending an email.

Attached file location

 Multiple Attachments
Multiple attachments can be sent by putting the files in an
array.

Array of files
 API Reference
For a better understanding of the email, visit the api by
clicking on the link below.

PVMail

More Tutorials
For more tutorials, please visit:

http://www.prodigyview.com/tutorials

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