Problems with mail to AOL users

stevel

Whenever I send HTML mail using the mail() function in php to the members of my newsletter list, those members with an AOL email address get the email as the HTML source code. Also affects some people on freeserve.

Anyone have any ideas why?

many thanks

simply___skewed

Not too sure - I've once experienced the same problem - and with mine - the headers weren't being interpreted correctly - so verify what type of doc ur sending in the headers. [But I'm sure you've already thought of that] Hope it helps

Can AOL and freeserve email clients accept HTML formatted email - it may not be your code?

Cheers

stevel

I know that some older versions of AOL did not support HTML but I also have some people who have the problem reading in Outlook Express who are not on either AOL or Freeserve, so I'm not sure if there is a problem with my code. I have tested on Hotmail and Yahoo and they are ok.

Below is an example of my code:

$headers = "From: me <myemail@mydomain.com>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: me <myemail@mydomain.com>\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP4\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: <me@mydomain.com>\n";

$email = "youremail@yourdomain.com";
$subject = "Some Subject";
$message = "<HTML><BODY>Some HTML Newsletter</BODY></HTML>";

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

Should this be OK?

many thanks