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Mail() - Headers

Kilo

Hi All,

I'm trying to send HTML emails from PHP. The thing is, I can do this fine to my work email account (handled by a cobalt box), and to webmail accounts like hotmail, yahoo etc. One of my clients have a different mail server, I'm still trying to find out from them what it is, but basically it just renders the html tags as text.

I've compared the headers, and here's the differences:

My headers:

Return-Path: <xxx@xxx.xxx>
Received: from xxx.xxx.xxx([xx.xx.xx.xx])
by xxx.xxx.xxx(8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA20848
for <xxx@xxx.coxxxm>; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:33:43 +0100
Received: by xxx.xxx.xxx(Postfix, from userid 500)
id CDEEB17616; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:30:00 +0100 (BST)
To: xxx@xxx.coxxxm
Subject: Test
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
From: xxx<xxx@xxx.xxx>
Reply-To: xxx@xxx.xxx
X-Mailer: PHP/4.3.0
Message-Id: <20030415143000.CDEEB17616@xxx.xxx.xxx>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:30:00 +0100 (BST)

Client's Headers:

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

From: xxx<xxx@xxx.xxx>
Reply-To: xxx@xxx.xxx
X-Mailer: PHP/4.3.0

Message-Id: <20030415114517.9FEA84020@xxx.xxx.xxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:45:17 +0100 (BST)
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Apr 2003 11:55:53.0427 (UTC)
FILETIME=[F75E1230:01C30345]
X-RCPT-TO: <xxx@xxx.xxx>
Status: U

I'm using the additional parameter -fbounce_xxx@xxx.xxx

To set the Return-Path. I've tried setting this plainly in the header also - this hasn't helped either.

It seems to me that the headers are being re-ordered by one of the mail servers. Any ideas much appreciated.
😕

harryman100

This is because the clients server is set to only recieve mail as text, I assume, although it is rare there are still some servers around like this, it could also be a problem with their software and the fact that it will only read text. I can't see any other reason for this.

Kilo

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately they've said that they've successfully received HTML mail from other sources, so it looks like I've still got something not quite right. 🙁

Kilo

Well it seems that it's a Postfix issue, as when I send the same mail from a different box which runs Sendmail, I don't get the same problem.

When sending with postfix, the "from" header gets ignored - WTF?

Has anyone heard of any known Postfix header incompatibilities or issues?

Najjar

These are all the headers you need
do not change their order its the most important part
this will work with any OS
good luck

$separator = "MiraxTesting";

$header = "From: $from_name<$from_email>\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: <$from_email>\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"; boundary=\"$separator\";\r\n\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n";
$header .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: phpmailer [version 1.40]\r\n";
$header .= "Return-Path: $from_email\r\n";

$separator = "MiraxTesting";
$message = "--$separator\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";
$message .= $part2."\r\n\r\n";
$message .= "\n";
// your html goes here -- It didn't appear properly without
// the weird markup that outlook added after sending
$message .= "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">\r\n";