<a href=mailto:....> tag in mail message

[Anon]

Dear all,
Two quick questions for PHP experts :

1- I am trying to send links in body message of mails sent with mail().
but when i receive the email, the link is shown in text format : <a href=link.htm>link</a> instead of underlined link.
any advices plz?

2- Is it possible to add CC: and BCC: in mail() function ?

Thx for any help,
Alec

[Anon]

1. If you want to include links in the body of an email just write the address out, i.e.

http://www.whatever.com/link.htm

You don't need to surround the link with an <a> tag - this is HTML. The mail program should then convert these to hypertext links.

Regards,

Glen

[Anon]

1) Some mail programs will not do this (the good programs mainly).
You may have to define the mail as content-type html.

Look for the colums and forum questions about email and mime on this site.

2) CC and BCC are headers that you can append to your message body.

[Anon]

1) Some mail programs will not do this (the good programs mainly).

I wonder why it would be a good trait for a mail program not to make the links live? Well, that's off topic here.

To Alec:

Mime types is the key. I use this as the last (header) argument for my mail() functions:

$header=sprintf("BCC:%s\nFrom: %s\nReply-To: %s\nMime-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"; format=flowed", blind_address(es), from_address, reply_to_address);

Replace the address pseudo-variables as you see fit and remove BCC if you don't use it.

This works for my purposes and makes the simple http:// links (no tags) live in most mail programs that I know.

Martin

[Anon]

I wouldn't put the <a> tags, either. I'd just send it plain text. If you send html mail, then you have to worry about whether your recipient accepts html mail or not. if they don't then they get the code, which is usually quickly deleted...

$headers = "Cc:[e-mail],[e-mail]\nReply-to:[e-mail]\nFrom:My Website<[e-mail]>\n";
mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers);

You might be able to do Bcc: the same way, but I think I remember someone posting something that said sendmail strips off the Bcc: headers before it's sent. Give it a try....

---John Holmes...

[Anon]

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