mail() and bizzare '!' characters

[AndyY]

I'm trying to send a long string via email using the mail() command.

For some reason though it appears to take the body string and add a '!' character followed by a line break. I was originally sending this email HTML encoded. However i've also tried sending the same thing as a normal Text file and it still adds the characters.

I tried sending a long sequence of the same character and extracted the email into a non-word wrapping text editor to find that they aren't being entered at random and are infact being entered every 200-300 characters (and no I ain't counting the exact number 🙂)

Does anybody have an explanation for this? or even an idea why it might be happening?

[kamy99]

I always get amazed when people have specific coding questions, yet fail to post the erroneous code!

As I've said before, we're not magicians!!🆒

[AndyY]

fuck it i'll deal with it myself, I was just using a simple mail() command there are no coding errors I was aking if anybody had had this phenomenom before not can you look at my code.

Remind me not to use this forum again.

[Chimera]

Man, there's no need to be a jerk about it, how can we know your code isn't at fault without seeing the code? A lot of the people who post here are beginners making beginners mistakes.

Well anyway, your problem lies with SMTP. By default, SMTP has a maximum line length of 1000 characters (998 + the final CRLF). When it hits that limit, it wraps the line and puts in the ! automatically. If you're sending an HTML mail with <BR> in it, try converting them to <BR> with a \r\n after them.