php mail() problem

Discussion in 'PHP' started by phpfreek, Feb 15, 2008.

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  1. #1
    Hi All,

    I am facing strange problem right now in my server. I have php 5 installed with all needed rpms in linux server.

    I am using the mail() with following code.

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

    $message = "test";

    mail("emailaddress","emailaddress",$message,$headers);

    Now the message comes in html code. In yahoo mail account the mail is going with html tags applied properly but in gmail and other few mail account, it is going without taking any effect and all tags are just showing.

    They are coming like

    Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
    From: email@email.com

    <font face=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=1><b>test<b></font>

    in gmail

    but in yahoo it is coming properly,

    test

    Can anyone help me out of this problem?

    Mark.
     
    phpfreek, Feb 15, 2008 IP
  2. greatlogix

    greatlogix Active Member

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function send_mail($myname, $myemail, $contactname, $contactemail,$subject, $message){
$headers ="";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html;\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: MyMailer\n";
$headers .= "To: \"$contactname\" <$contactemail>\n";
$headers .= "From: \"$myname\" <$myemail>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: \"$myname\" <$myemail>\n";
return( mail( $contactemail, $subject, urldecode($message), $headers ) );
}
    PHP:
    Try this function to send emails and let me know.
     
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  3. DarkMindZ

    DarkMindZ Guest

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$eol="\n";
$headers = "From: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
$headers .= "Return-Path: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
$headers .= "Message-ID: <".time()."-".$fromaddress.">".$eol;
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion().$eol;

$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'.$eol;
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol.$eol;
    PHP:
    I use this one, never failed me.
     
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  4. phpfreek

    phpfreek Peon

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    Hi Both, this worked like a dream.

    I removed only '\r' from the code and it started working. Now this is weired i think.

    Why \r was working perfactly in old server and in new dedicated server it was not working??

    Is it php 4 and php 5 problem or is it server security problem?

    Please let me know for the reason as \r\n combination is in php manual and if it does not work then there must be some big change.

    Thanks again.
     
    phpfreek, Feb 15, 2008 IP