Email Headers for Mac and Netscape

Najjar

Hi,
I have a code that sends an email with HTML Tags using PHP and
it works great for Outlook express but it does not work for Mac or Netscape,
after the code below I continue my HTML code with buttons, textarea, and
forms...
Does anyone know what are the right headers to send for Mac and/or Netscape.
Thank you in advance guys

This is my code it might help someone else.

$headers = "From: $from_name<$from_email>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: <$from_email>\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related type=\"multipart/alternative\"; boundary=\"----=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message\"\n";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: $from_name<$from_email>\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP4\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: <$from_email>\n";
$headers .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n";
$headers .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_main_message \n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"----=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\"\n";

$message = "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n";
$message .= "\n";
$message .= "-- plaintext version of the message\n";
$message .= "\n";
$message .= "------=MIME_BOUNDRY_message_parts\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/html;\n charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\n";
$message .= "\n";

$message .= "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">\n";

stolzyboy

does not work for mac what - mac with outlook, outlook express, ms entourage, the mac's mail program itself, what.....

Najjar

The code sends an email using PHP email() function and when
I open the email using Outlook Express it works great
but when I open it using my Apple Mac Machine it does not
view the email properly at all.
Or even when I open the email using Netscape Nav.
any ideas
Thank you

stolzyboy

i use this and have given it to others on here before and it has worked for me to send to mac email addys just fine, i have tested it numerous times on os9 and osX, with outlook, outlook express, entourage, however i don't use nutscrape so i haven't check in there

<?
if (isset($send))
{
$to  = "Whom Ever <whomever@wherever.com>";

$subject = "Contact Form";

$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
Email address you entered:  <font color=red>$email</font>
</body>
</html>
";

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$headers .= "From: You <you@you.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Cc: [email]notyou@you.com[/email]\r\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
<br><br><center><font size=3><b>Thank You, You're information has been submitted</b></font></center>
<?
}
else
{
?>
<form>
<input type="text" name="email"><br>
<input type="submit" name="send">
</form>
<?
}
?>

and of course you can have any number of form elements in here, this is just a small example

Najjar

The code did not work
even with Outlook or any thing else
here is my full code:

$accept = "<INPUT TYPE=\''SUBMIT' NAME=\''Decline' VALUE=\''Approve' style=\'border: 1px solid>\n";
$decline = "<INPUT TYPE=\''SUBMIT' NAME=\''Decline' VALUE=\''Decline' style=\'border: 1px solid>\n";
$Reason_Area = "<TEXTAREA NAME=\''Reason' rows=\''5' cols=\''50'></TEXTAREA>\n";
$from_name = "$FName $LName";
$from_email = "$Email";
$to_name = "Najjar";
$to_email = "najjar@email.com";
$subject = "Registration Information";

$message .= "<HTML>\n";
$message .= "<TABLE align=\''center' Border=\''5'>\n";
$message .= "<TR><TD colspan=\''4' align=\''center' bgcolor=\''aabbaa'><B>Check Your Information</B></TD></TR>\n";
$message .= "<TR><TD bgcolor=\''aabbaa'><B>Name: </B></TD><TD colspan=\''3' bgcolor=\''AntiqueWhite'>$FName $LName </TD></TR>\n";
$message .= "<TR><TD bgcolor=\''aabbaa'><B>SSN: </B></TD><TD colspan=\''3' bgcolor=\''AntiqueWhite'>$SSN </TD></TR>\n";
$message .= "<TR><TD bgcolor=\''aabbaa'><B>Email: </B></TD><TD colspan=\''3' bgcolor=\''AntiqueWhite'>$Email </TD></TR>\n";
$message .= "<TR><TD bgcolor=\''aabbaa'><B>Password: </B></TD><TD colspan=\''3' bgcolor=\''AntiqueWhite'>$Password </TD></TR>\n";
$message .= "<TR><TD bgcolor=\''aabbaa' colspan=\''4' align=\''center'><B>I am trying to register to these classes </B> </TD></TR>\n";
$message .= "<TR bgcolor=\''aabbaa'><TD align=\''center'><B>Course Name</B></TD><TD align=\''center'><B>Instructor</B></TD><TD align=\''center'><B>Term</B></TD><TD align=\''center'><B>Description</B></TD></TR>\n";
for ($i = 0;$i < $count;$i++)
{
$Read_Access = "SELECT * FROM this_table WHERE ID = '$ID[$i]'";
$Access_Result = mysql_query($Read_Access);

while($row_Access = mysql_fetch_row($Access_Result))
{
$message .= "<TR bgcolor=\''AntiqueWhite'><TD>$row_Access[1]</TD><TD>$row_Access[2]</TD><TD>$row_Access[3]</TD><TD>$row_Access[4]</TD></TR>\n";
}
}
$message .= "<FORM ACTION=\'http://www.something.com METHOD=\''POST'>\n";
$message .= "<TR><TD colspan=\''4' align=\''center' bgcolor=\''aabbaa'>$accept</TD></TR>\n";
$message .= "<INPUT TYPE=\''HIDDEN' NAME=\''Email' VALUE=\''$Email'>\n";
$message .= "<INPUT TYPE=\''HIDDEN' NAME=\''FName' VALUE=\''$FName'>";
$message .= "<INPUT TYPE=\''HIDDEN' NAME=\''LName' VALUE=\''$LName'>";
$message .= "<INPUT TYPE=\''HIDDEN' NAME=\''SSN' VALUE=\''$SSN'>";
$message .= "<INPUT TYPE=\''HIDDEN' NAME=\''Password' VALUE=\''$Password'>";
$message .= "</FORM>\n";
$message .= "<FORM ACTION=\'http://www.something.com METHOD=\''POST'>\n";
$message .= "<TR><TD colspan=\''4' align=\''center' bgcolor=\''aabbaa'>$Reason_Area</TD></TR>\n";
$message .= "<TR><TD colspan=\''4' align=\''center' bgcolor=\''aabbaa'>$decline</TD></TR>\n";
$message .= "<INPUT TYPE=\''HIDDEN' NAME=\''Email' VALUE=\''$Email'>\n";
$message .= "<INPUT TYPE=\''HIDDEN' NAME=\''FName' VALUE=\''$FName'>";
$message .= "<INPUT TYPE=\''HIDDEN' NAME=\''LName' VALUE=\''$LName'>";
$message .= "<INPUT TYPE=\''HIDDEN' NAME=\''SSN' VALUE=\''$SSN'>";
$message .= "<INPUT TYPE=\''HIDDEN' NAME=\''Password' VALUE=\''$Password'>";
$message .= "</FORM>\n";
$message .= "</TABLE></HTML>\n";
mail("$to_name<$to_email>", $subject, $message, $headers);

sorry for the long post :rolleyes:

stolzyboy

what kind of box and what version of php blah blah blah are you using? i ask cuz this is weird that mine doesn't work, i have used it on numerous sites and both nix and win platforms, and the html code always works regardless of platform and email program aside from nutscrape, as i said b4

Najjar

I am using PHP 4.3.0 under Apache
my box is windows 2000 pro
I am trying to send an email to the admin
with html tags to accept or decline the registration
it works with outlook as i mintioned b4
but not with Mac and Netscape
one of the guys told me that its kind of order in the headers
but he could not remember exactly what was the difference.

Thanx

stolzyboy

sorry man, not sure of the problem, maybe someone else here can help out, WEEDPACKET maybe, hint, hint