Comments for Occupied, DND, Away

Comment on Zend_Mail Obstacles by Robert G.

Robert G. — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:03:20 +0000

Thank you for posting the hint about
$mail->setType(Zend_Mime::MULTIPART_RELATED);

I tried for hours to send a mail with inline images and this was the only thing I did not do.
After adding this line it worked perfectly, thanks again!

Comment on Fortune Cookie by and The Cookies Are

and The Cookies Are — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:18:53 +0000

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Comment on What you pay for sending 10 million spam mails a day by anty

anty — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:15:53 +0000

You are right, but even the Russian prices would be interesting. Most of this business is done in Russia anyways.

Comment on Keep focused! by anty

anty — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:13:03 +0000

Yes, affiliate marketing can be disappointing sometimes. Especially when you have to search converting merchants to begin with. I know I tried many offers, but only a few actually converted.
The worst merchant I got to date has no conversions with 4367 unique hits.

3 days are not a reachable goal if your site is new unless you get traffic from somewhere else like AdWords and such.

I made my first sale after one and a half month with a bunch of brand new sites.

Don’t give up and thanks for commenting!

Comment on Keep focused! by Jagdu

Jagdu — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:02:01 +0000

Dang it’s hard to stay focused when your small targets aren’t reached by the time you think they should. For example on an affiliate site of mine. I thought that after 3 days I should have at least one sale. Now a week later I have nothing! But I need to stay focused.

Comment on What you pay for sending 10 million spam mails a day by Jagdu

Jagdu — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:57:53 +0000

It’s such a black market that prices vary wildly. I can’t imagine there are too many sites (except maybe .ru) that explicitly state prices for illegal actions.

Comment on Zend_Mail Obstacles by anty

anty — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:43:02 +0000

@Wayne: I try to extract the important things from my script for you. Here's how to determine the image type:

// getimagesize returns false, if the URL does not exist
if (file_exists($imagePath) || getimagesize($imagePath)) {
	$image = file_get_contents($imagePath);
	if (function_exists('exif_imagetype') && function_exists('image_type_to_mime_type')) {
		$imageType = image_type_to_mime_type(exif_imagetype($imagePath));
	}
}

I did this to replace all image-tags in my mail template with references to the attached images (cid):

if (!is_null($image)) {
	$cid = md5($image) .'.'. md5(microtime());
	$images[$cid] = array($image, $imageType);
	if (trim($src[1]) == '' && trim($src[2]) != '') {
		$templateMessageTemp = preg_replace('/(]*src=)(?:"' . preg_quote($src[2], '/') .'"|\\\''. preg_quote($src[2], '/') .'\\\')([^>]*>)/i', '${1}"cid:'. $cid .'"${2}', $templateMessage);
	} elseif (trim($src[1]) != '') {
		$templateMessageTemp = preg_replace('/(]*src=)(?:"' . preg_quote($src[1], '/') .'"|\\\''. preg_quote($src[1], '/') .'\\\')([^>]*>)/i', '${1}"cid:'. $cid .'"${2}', $templateMessage);
	}

	if ($templateMessageTemp == $templateMessage) {
		// nothing was replaced (duplicate images whas used), ignore this image
		unset($images[$cid]);
	}

	$templateMessage = $templateMessageTemp;
}

Here is how I attached the images with the right cid:

// attach images
foreach ($images as $cid => $image) {
	$imageData = $image[0];
	$imageType = $image[1];
	if ($imageType === false) {
		$at = $mail->createAttachment($imageData);
	} else {
		$at = $mail->createAttachment($imageData, $imageType, Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_INLINE, Zend_Mime::ENCODING_BASE64);
	}

	$at->id = $cid;
}

I hope this helps you!

Comment on Zend_Mail Obstacles by Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:30:21 +0000

Thanks for your post on ‘Inline images are displayed as attachments’ … we have REALLY battled to find any help on attaching images inline with the zend_mail… do you by any chance have a full example of how you attached the images into the body, without the image showing as a jpeg?
thanks a mill!!

Comment on Zend_Mail Obstacles by alban

alban — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:09:39 +0000

new Zend_Mail(’utf-8′);
thank !!!