magento的邮件非常的领过，但是使用起来有点复杂，下面是实用的zend机制发送邮件的简单方法，如下：

public function sendEmail()
{
     $fromEmail = "from@example.com" ; // sender email address
     $fromName = "John Doe" ; // sender name
 
     $toEmail = "to@example.com" ; // recipient email address
     $toName = "Mark Doe" ; // recipient name
 
     $body = "This is Test Email!" ; // body text
     $subject = "Test Subject" ; // subject text
 
     $mail = new Zend_Mail();       
 
     $mail ->setBodyText( $body );
 
     $mail ->setFrom( $fromEmail , $fromName );
 
     $mail ->addTo( $toEmail , $toName );
 
     $mail ->setSubject( $subject );
 
     try {
         $mail ->send();
     }
     catch (Exception $ex ) {
         // I assume you have your custom module.
         // If not, you may keep 'customer' instead of 'yourmodule'.
         Mage::getSingleton( 'core/session' )
             ->addError(Mage::helper( 'yourmodule' )
             ->__( 'Unable to send email.' ));
     }
}
如果想发送html代码
则实用方法：
$mail = new Zend_Mail("UTF-8"); 
$mail ->setBodyHtml( $body );
如果想用magento的邮件机制，可以参看如下链接：http://magentocookbook.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/magento-email/