Zend Mail & Zend Mime

Zend_Mime is a support class for handling multipart MIME messages. It is used by Zend_Mail and Zend_Mime_Message and may be used by applications requiring MIME support.

Zend_Mail provides generalized functionality to compose and send both text and MIME-compliant multipart e-mail messages. Mail can be sent with Zend_Mail via the php built-in mail() function or via direct SMTP connection.

Constructing mail, Sending mail, Reliability, Performance, Bounce processing, Responsibility

Since the beginning of Internet time man has strived for the best way to send emails from a program. Whether a web page that notifies its owner when an order is placed to merchants sending a welcomed message to its closest 250,000 customers; man continues to strive for the best way to communicate without having to be personal. With the advent of the Zend Framework, we have another weapon in the arsenal, Zend_Mail.

In this article, we will be sending two types of e-mail messages. The first is a simple text-based e-mail that simply lists the feeds to which a user has subscribed that have been updated since the user last read them. The second is an e-mail that actually sends the new posts that have arrived since the last time the user read a particular feed. We will first update the database so every feed has an accurate last-updated value. We'll also update subscribed feeds with a last-pulled value when the reader views them. Finally, we'll create the routine that compares these dates, creates the e-mail messages, and sends them