email problem

Anon

I have posted this in general help before, but didn't get any help. I would like to try again.
I have a problem senting out emails. When I use the mail() function to sent out mail (either a html mail or a plain text mail). When the email body gets semi large(about 6000 characters), the email
content will be distorted. When I echo the email body, it's perfectly fine. But when I open it in outlook or yahoo mail, some extra text will be appended at the end or some text got deleted. The file I am senting is really not big, just 7K.
I suspect it has something to do with the virus protection from outlook or yahoo mail. When the email gets a certain size, it will try to break it up.
Has anyone experience this kind of problem?
I have seem articles mentioning breaking up the email body using soft break or = after every 1000 characters. I have tried, but didn't work for me.

This is my code:

$email_body in my application is a table, but if it gets large enough, any text will be distored.

$email_body ="<body>This is a test, blah, blah, blah....<BR>";
$email_body .="This is a test<BR>";
$email_body .="</BODY>";

$from_address = "jamieyupoon@yahoo.com";
$recipients = "jamieyupoon@yahoo.com";
$reply_to = "jamieyupoon@yahoo.com";

$subject = "Test";

$email_headers = "From:". $from_address;
$email_headers .= "\r\nReply-To:". $reply_to;
$email_headers .= "\nMIME-version: 1.0\n";
$email_headers .= "Content-type: text/html;";
$email_headers .= "boundary=\"Message-Boundary\"\n";
$email_headers .= "Content-transfer-encoding: 7Bits\n";

mail($recipients, $subject, $email_body, $email_headers);

For the content-transfer encoding, i have tried using various types, same problem occurs.

Please help!

Anon

To be honest, I haven't had any problems sending large emails through mail(). I use Richard Heyes' html_mime_mail object:

http://www.heyes-computing.net/scripts/

HTH

-- Rich Rijnders
-- Irvine, CA US

Anon

i just tried the html_mime_mail that you sent me. It still breaks up my email body. I was wondering did you do anything to break up your email content?
I assume that you put your email body in $html in the example.php. And

$html="<BODY>......</BODY>";
$html .="...";
$html .=".....</BODY>";
$mail->add_html($html, $text);

How large is your email? and did you try using tables?

Thanks

Anon

I haven't tried tables, but some of the email I have sent are definitely over 6000 chars.

Maybe it has something to do with the actual content of your email message. Are you using a foreign language or using special characters? (7 bit requires only sending standard ascii characters).

I have an idea... Send the email to me (if it's nothing personal) and I will look at it in Netscape mail and in Outlook and see what it does.

rich@1stsys.com

Anon

I'll also volunteer as a sample recipient if you like. 6k is most
definitely not large as far as the body of an email message.

Anon

Thanks for volunteering. When Rich sent me the email, it looks perfectly fine, but when I use the same script to sent out email, it totally mess up the content. So, I think the problem is not the php code, it's got to have something to do with our email configuration here. I have little knowledge about qmail and email setup, so I have got some IT people looking at this now.

Thanks,
Jamie