Sending HTML e-mail from server

DJM

I know that this problem has arisen many times in the forum, but I've looked at all the answers and still can't get get the thing to work.

I am trying to send an HTML e-mail from a PHP script on the server, but what I get in the e-mail client (Outlook Express) is just the source code of the HTML (OE is set to receive HTML mail). This is what I am doing:

<?php 

$from="A Person";
$recipient="someone-else@elsewhere.com";
$subject="Test e-Mail";


$separator=md5(uniqid(time()));

$headers="From: $from\n";
$headers.="MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers.="Content-Type: multipart/alternative; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"; boundary=\"$separator \"";
$headers.="\r\n\r\n";
$headers.="This is a multi-part message in MIME format.";
$headers.="\r\n\r\n";

$body_message="--$separator\r\n";
$body_message.="Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$body_message.="Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";
$body_message.="\r\n\r\n";

$body_message.=<<<QTE
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p><b>Message</b></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>
QTE;

$body_message.="--$separator--";


mail($recipient, $subject, $body_message, $headers);

?>

Any help greatly appreciated.

planetsim

I was under the impression that Outlook Express doesnt allow HTML Emails.

pyfsapple

$header = "From: \"".addslashes($sender_name)."\" <".$sender_email.">\r\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: ".$from."\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .= "X-Priority: 3\r\n";

Try this, I got this work!

DJM

To planetsim,

Yes - Outlook Express handles HTML e-mail OK - I receive them by the bucketload every day!

To pyfsapple,

Thanks - I'll try it.

common_ground

I also had trouble getting HTML mail to work I started by copying a demo from
http://www.zend.com/zend/trick/html-email.php
(which did not work) but then I tried changing all the \r\n to \n and it was fine (not sure why)

DJM

Thanks for the information, and also the link - there's a lot of useful material on that site.

Archbob

$headers = "From: $email\r\nReply-To: $femail\r\n";
mail("$femail", "title", "body",$headers);