mail() random ! inserted

[dmayo2]

Good Day.

Weird problem here. The mail function is automatically inserting a "!" in my message. (Sorry if this was posted before, but it was hard searching for the exclaimation point.).

Basic psedu-script:

$msg = $row[GetEmailMsg];
$subject = 'hello';
$sql = mysql_query(GetEmailRecipients);

for($sql){
  $to = $sql[EmailAddress];
  $headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
  $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
  $headers .= "From: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n";

  mail($to, $subject, $msg, $headers);
}

That's the basic script.

Now at exactly character position (non-white spaces) 1461 the mail function inserts a "!" and a carriage return.

I've tested the script that calls this mail() by echo-ing the $msg immediately before the mail(), and it looks fine -- no "!" anywhere.

Ideas? I'm kinda' lost. Thanks.

[leena]

Hello,

I was just reading your post here about the random exlaimation marks being put in your email.

I am having the same problem. Did you ever find out what it was from?

Thanks for your time.
Sincerely,
Lena

[dmayo2]

Sorry for delay in responding. I never was able to isolate the problem, but using this class solved it:

phpmailer
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/264.html

[Drakla]

Are both of you using the windows version of php version 433 or less? If so then it's the mail() function that's bugged. I did exactly the same thing and used an smtp mail class to solve it.

[dmayo2]

Yes and No. Using PHP v4.2 on Linux. The class I'm using is using mail rather than smtp.

[searain]

I have the same problems, why and how to solve it?

And it happens only when the message is longer than certain length.

But at the same time, I have other scripts using mail() to send out even longer e-mail without problems.

So what is the problem? Please Help!!!

Thanks!

[searain]

Found the solution in php.net

Derek
08-Feb-2004 07:03
I had the problem that when sending "large" emails (at least 1000 characters), the mail function would add exclamation characters "!" into the body of the email.

This was easily fixed by adding a wordwrap to the body of the email. The following function will do this for you:

<?php
function send_mail($myname, $myemail, $contactname, $contactemail, $subject, $message, $bcc) {

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "From: \"".$myname."\" <".$myemail.">\n";

if ($bcc != "")
$headers .= "Bcc: ".$bcc."\n";

$output = $message; $output = wordwrap($output, 72);
return(mail("\"".$contactname."\" <".$contactemail.">", $subject, $output, $headers));
}
?>

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Instead of use his function, I simple wordwrap the message before I mail the message

$message=wordwrap($message, 72);

Could any one tell me, why this will fix the problem?

My code was working fine with the long message before, suddently it has the "!" shows randomly. Now after I wordwrap the message, the "!" problem solved.

Could that because my ISP firewall set up changes and break the e-mail to smaller pieces than before and that cause me the problem?

I have other scripts use the mail() to send the large message, I didn't see these scripts have problems to show "!" randomly.

My next question is should I wordwrap all my mail() out messages anyway?

Thanks!