Sending an HTML Email

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Everyone says the below should send html email.. but its not... it sends the html as plain text, I've tried editing/removing/adding.. can't get it to do anything but give me a whole bunch of header info I don't want.

Please help

Tony

<?php
$to = &quot;thicks@wisernet.com\r\n&quot;;
$subject = &quot;Testing&quot;;
$fc=implode(&quot;&quot;,file(&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.sierratimes.com/sendalert.txt&quot;));[/URL]
// $fc=strip_tags($fc);
$headers  = &quot;MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n&quot;;
$headers .= &quot;Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n&quot;;
mail(&quot;$to&quot;, &quot;$subject&quot;, &quot;<b>$fc</B>&quot;, $headers);
echo($fc)
?>

 

[piti]

try it without the "\r" symbol

<?php
$to = &quot;thicks@wisernet.com\n&quot;;
$subject = &quot;Testing&quot;;
$fc=implode(&quot;&quot;,file(&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.sierratimes.com/sendalert.txt&quot;));[/URL]
// $fc=strip_tags($fc);
$headers  = &quot;MIME-Version: 1.0\n&quot;;
$headers .= &quot;Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n&quot;;
mail(&quot;$to&quot;, &quot;$subject&quot;, &quot;<b>$fc</B>&quot;, $headers);
echo($fc)
?>

 

[webmigit]

Hey..

Thanks, but all that did was not show the excess header information which I didn't want it to do anyway...

Any other ideas?
Tony

 

[danielhozac]

Change

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

to

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";

You shouldn't put a newline on the last header, and you should use CR-LF as specified by the SMTP RFC (if your mail server doesn't automatically do it). //Daniel

 

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<?php
$to = &quot;thicks@wisernet.com\n&quot;;
$subject = &quot;Testing&quot;;
$fc=implode(&quot;&quot;,file(&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.sierratimes.com/sendalert.txt&quot;));[/URL]
// $fc=strip_tags($fc);
$headers  = &quot;MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n&quot;;
$headers .= &quot;Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1&quot;;
mail(&quot;$to&quot;, &quot;$subject&quot;, &quot;<b>$fc</B>&quot;, $headers);
echo($fc)
?>

Two Questions
One, is it possible to shut off html emails in php, could the host have done this?

Two, Is my problem an unusual problem? I took the recommendations you made and tried it and tried fiddling with it, nothing I came up with worked.

Tony Hicks

 

[danielhozac]

Your problem is obivous. I can't believe I missed it the first time.
You have a newline on the end of the address:
[tt]$to = "thicks@wisernet.com\n";[/tt]
Remove it and it should work fine (it does on my server anyway). //Daniel

 

[webmigit]

That just added a lot of header information:

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Message-Id: <E17opmp-0000HR-00@*****>
From: Nobody <nobody@*****>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:30:55 -0700
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - *****
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - *****
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [99 99] / [99 99]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - *****

The ***** are places where I removed information... How can I get the php version number... maybe there's a flaw in the version?

Tony

 

[danielhozac]

I'm guessing that the headers are added by the mail server, as a security precaution by the host in case someone sends 1000 emails to the same address or something.
The version can be seen either with phpinfo() or with php_version() (I think, not really sure though). //Daniel

 

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