Hotmail receives PHP mail as attachment

garbunzl

Hello,

I'm having a problem using the Mail() function to send email to Hotmail. No matter what I send, text/html or text/plain, Hotmail receives it as an attachment. I'm trying to allow my visitors to send HTML email with images displayed inline.

Here is my code:

<?php

echo "<body>";

$extra = "Mime-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-Type:text/html charset=\"ISO-8859-1\"\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\nFrom: Photo Mailer on $SERVER_NAME <$from>\r\nReply-to: $from\r\n";

$message ="<A HREF='http://www.garbunzl.34sp.com/images/cooltoes.jpg'><IMG SRC='http://www.garbunzl.34sp.com/images/Thumbnails/thumbcooltoes.jpg'></A>";
$message .="<BR><CENTER>----------------------------------------------<BR><A HREF='http://www.garbunzl.34sp.com'>Visit my site</A>";
mail ($to, $subject, $message, $extra);

echo "Sending mail...";
echo "</body>";

This code works perfectly with Outlook and Outlook Express(displays inline), but Hotmail always receives it as an attachment.
Please HELP!!!

Anon

Some web based mail interfaces will not allow HTML mail. I am not sure about Hotmail, but that may be the case. I use IMail and I can set it to allow or disallow HTML mail at the admin level.

garbunzl

Thanks for the reply David. I am able to receive web-based HTML email with Hotmail, because I receive HTML newsletters and advertisements. I'm wondering if this is a security feature that I need to contend with. Is some kind of digital signature required?

Anon

You will soon find that hotmail displays differently than yahoo, yahoo differently than aol, aol differently than OE, and on and on and on and on.

I've been down this road...Your only solution is to make if/else statements. If sent to yahoo, display this way. If sent to Hotmail, display this way...etc.

Big hassle...