Proper Email MIME

This is driving me nuts and i think I just need
a fresh set of eyes to look at this....


Basically I have a script that is grabbing data
from the form, and the file (if attached) and doing
the email (without spam)

All seems to be good.

The part I cant get figured out is the $message.

I've done something wrong and it's driving me nuts.

I have a ton of post variables that need to be filled
into the email that get sent with the attachment
(if there is one)

And when I receive the email I am getting the
special characters like \n or \t

Im trying to get it do list my vars nicely:

Name: John Doe
Email:
Address: 123 main st

And so on...

Heres my form code on the receiving end:

// Generate a boundary string
 $semi_rand = md5(time());
 $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

// Add the headers for a file attachment
  $headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
 "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\n" .
" boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

  // Add a multipart boundary above the plain message

 $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
    "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
  "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
   "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n " .
$message . "\n\n"; 


   // Base64 encode the file data
   $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

 // Add file attachment to the message
   $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
               "Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" .
               " name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
               "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
               $data . "\n\n" .
               "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";
 }

 // Send the message
 $ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

PHP:

My outbound messages (from the form)
are: enctype="multipart/form-data"


So I am not sure whats going on - can anyone tell
me where im FUDGING UP?

 

Does this default to a HTML email when in multi mode, so you would need to use nl2br() on the message to convert \n etc to <br> this way the email would be formatted correctly.

 

From your site. <br>test\n\ntest


thats what i get in the email....

IM ABOUT READY TO KICK MY STUPID COMPUTER!

 

try single quotes for the \n parts .

 

$message = 'From your site. ' . '<br>' . 'test'. '\n\n' . 'test';

Thats what produced me the above example

I was trying to format $message before it was called. Instead
I am still getting the same results....

Bonkers anyone?! (BOING BOING BOING!)

 

you cant use single quotes as the \n wont be parsed in the message as a line break.