Sending HTML emails

[jonnym]

I am having trouble sending HTML emails and I'm not sure where the problem is coming from. I am sending one copy to Microsoft Entourage on my Mac and one copy to Outlook Express on my PC. Entourage displays it fine but Outlook displays the code.

Here is my code:

		
$to = $email;
		$subject = "Lax World Design On-line: Jersey";
		$message = $html;
		//$headers = "From: ".$replyto."\r\n";
		$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
		$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 


	mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); 

Here's what shows up in Outlook:

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Status: RO
X-UIDL: 1053456763.27631.echo

Could it be that my server is not set up to send HTML emails?

[coditoergosum]

Well, the server doesn't care whether it's html or plain text... it's just sending the ascii text you give it.

What do the full headers look like? It sounds like OE doesn't like the way the headers are formatted, and is just spitting out the content-type header, rather than using it to set the content type. You probably need to play with the headers a bit so OE likes them. You'll probably have to set all of the headers specifically.

One idea would be to send an HTML email to outlook, from a regular mail client and see how it formats the headers... then just copy it.