You can use the Mailer class (based on Zend_Mail which our benchmarks show is the leanest email package) to easily and reliably send emails.
Usage:
<?php
// Using Mailer::send() as a wrapper:
$mail = Mailer::send (array (
'to' => array ('user@example.com', 'Joe User'),
'from' => array ('me@widgets.com', 'Alternate Sender'),
'cc' => array ('me@widgets.com', 'CC This Guy'),
'bcc' => array ('me@widgets.com', 'BCC This Guy'),
'reply_to' => array ('me@widgets.com', 'Reply to This Guy'),
'subject' => 'Subject line',
'text' => 'This is a plain text message.',
'html' => 'This is an <b>html</b> message.',
'attachments' => array (
'File data...',
// or
new Zend_Mime_Part ('File data...')
)
));
// Using the Zend_Mail object directly:
$mail = Mailer::getInstance ();
$mail->setBodyText ('This is an email message.');
$mail->setSubject ('Subject line');
$mail->addTo ('user@example.com', 'Joe User');
// Etc.
$mail->send ();
?>
Since Mailer is a simple wrapper around Zend_Mail, it does not catch exceptions thrown by Zend_Mail for you. To handle errors, use the following pattern:
<?php
// Using Mailer::send() as a wrapper:
try {
$mail = Mailer::send (array (
'to' => array ('user@example.com', 'Joe User'),
'from' => array ('me@widgets.com', 'Alternate Sender'),
'subject' => 'Subject line',
'text' => 'This is a plain text message.'
));
} catch (Exception $e) {
// Handle mail error
}
?>
Benchmark source:
https://github.com/jbroadway/php-mail-test
Memory usage for initializing and sending a single email message through the default Sendmail transport method:
mail() - 632 KBClearly, Zend_Mail is by far the most efficient email library of those we tested.