Sending Transactional E-Mails:

Here is the way to go…….

<pre>$email = Mage::getModel('core/email_template');

$email->sendTransactional(

some_email_template', // template

 array('name' => 'Your Company', 'email' => 'contact@yourcompany.com'), // sender details    'joe@joebloggs.com',  // recipient email

 'Joe Bloggs',                                                          // recipient name

                            array('customerName' => 'Joe Bloggs'),                                 // merge vars

                            Mage::app()->getStore()->getStoreId()                                  // store id

                        );

 

reference: http://jaseir.com/magento/sending-transactional-e-mails/