Intranet Journal has a new article posted for anyone out there looking to add a little bit of user-interactivity to their web applications - a guide to sending emails from your PHP applications.

Communicating with Web site users via e-mail is crucial to the success of any online service. The ability to deliver registration confirmations and newsletters; provide a convenient and relatively secure password recovery tool; and keep clients updated with shipping status reports are just a few of the reasons for incorporating e-mail-based features into your Web site infrastructure.

They introduce the mail() function, talk about how to send a simple email from your script, how to add additional headers, and even branch out into how to send Mime emails or emails with attachments. Thankfully, the mail() function makes all of this a snap, and can integrate quickly and easily with just about any application you can think of.

Thanks to PHP Magazine for the pointer...