Problems with HTML emails to webmail clients

Marky2

I have problems sending PHP generated HTML emails to Hotmail addresses and other similiar webmail accounts. The subject line is fine but the email bodies are blank. It seems the information is received, it is just not visible, since if the emails are sent on as an attachment they are viewable in other email clients.

Normal email clients receive the emails fine (Outlook, Outlook express etc.)

I have experimented with all different headers i could lay my hands on and varied the new lines \r\n and \n and \n\n and so on but nothing seems to work. Also tried base64 coding.

Does anybody have experience on this matter?

The following code is my best shot so far but Hotmail wont display...:

 

  $headers = "From: $myname <$gotos>\n";
  $headers .= "Reply-To: <$email>\n";
  $headers .= "Errors-To: <$gotos>\n";
  $headers .= "Return-path: <$gotos>\n";
  $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 
  $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
  $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n";
  $headers .= "X-Priority: 1\n"; 
  $headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\n"; 
  $headers .= "X-Mailer: iCEx Networks HTML-Mailer v1.0"; 


  $subject ="Hello";

$body = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"\n";

$body .= "<html>\n";
$body .= "<head>\n";
$body .= "<Title>hello</title>\n";
$body .= "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">";
$body .= "</head>\n";
$body .= "<body>My message\n";
$body .= "</body>\n";
$body .= "</html>\n";

 mail($emailu, $subject, $body, $headers);

steadyguy

I think your problem might be fixed by using the .= on all the $headers and all the $bodys after the first one:

Instead of:

//stuff ...
 $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
//other stuff... 
$body = "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">";

Try this:

//stuff ...
 $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
//other stuff...
$body .= "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">";

By the way ... that <meta> tag is pretty much exactly the same as sending the same info in the header, so you can probably live without it.

Marky2

Thank you for pointing out the misplaced dots. I have been using the dots at the right places, I was just a bit sloppy when I put the code up for display.

I just wish it was that easy though. I will update the post so that the code reflects the one I'm currently using.

Problem persists.

steadyguy

Have you tried with only a very basic set of headers (ie, From, Reply-To, Content-Type)? I've never had any problems, and these are the only ones I use ... occasionally I use the Bcc, or Cc, but have never had any problems leaving the rest out.

Marky2

Tried it, still the same...

How about the HTML tags in the beginning and the end of the body. Is Hotmail et al more sensitive to the specific coding of those?

The whole email gets there, I'm sure of it, it just is displayed blank in webmail clients for some reason.