PHPMailer is a PHP-Class for PHP (www.php.net) providing a package of functions to send emails. Main Features are HTML-Mail and Emails with attachments. For mailing, PHPMailer supports nearly all possiblities (old+ most of any ways) to send emails: mail(), sendmail, qmail & smtp-server directly. You can use any feature of smtp based emails: multiple to's, cc's, bcc's etc. In short: you can send emails with PHPMailer. As you (might) know, you can already send mails with the php mail() function. So why do you need a class?

Isn't it slower? - Yes that's true. But you don't pay a price if you won't get anything for it: PHPMailer makes it easy to send mails, gives you the ability of using attachments, sending HTML-messages and other stuff. With PHPMailer you can even use your own stmp-server and walk around sendmail routines used by the mail() function on *nix platforms.

Features:

• Can send emails with multiple TOs, CCs, BCCs and REPLY-TOs
• Redundant SMTP servers
• Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read HTML email
• Support for 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encoding
• Uses the same methods as the very popular AspEmail active server (COM) component
• SMTP authentication
• Word wrap
• Address reset functions
• HTML email
• Tested on multiple SMTP servers: Sendmail, qmail, Postfix, Imail, Exchange, Mercury, Courier
• Works on any win32 or
• nix platform
• Flexible debugging
• Custom mail headers
• Multiple fs, string, and binary attachments (those from database, string, etc)
• Embedded image support