Email Displaying Improperly

[Aludaan]

Hello,

Ok, I am creating a program that emails people with specific information. Now, everything has been going pretty well for me but I have been working on one system creating the code that would be uploaded to a seperate server later. Need I even point out that when I uploaded the code my email part goes thud.

Specifically this is my problem:

<?php
$mail_html = "<p>This is a test<br><font color=\"#FF0000\">Testing... 1... 2... 3.</font>";
$header.="From: Mr. Bill";
$header.="\r\n";
$header.="Content-type: text/html;\r\n";
mail("[e-mail]", "testing", "$mail_html","$header");
php?>

I generated this very basic text to do my testing and try to track down what the problem is but it is not going well. If I do this on my test system it will work fine. But when I put it on my production system it works but it puts this at the top of the email:

Message-Id: <[e-mail]> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 03:05:22 -0400 (EDT) Return-Path: [e-mail] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Apr 2004 07:07:20.0593 (UTC) FILETIME=[74320010:01C42838]

My test system is a linux box running PHP, MySQL and Apache. (schocking isn't it) 😉

The production system is a OS/390 mainframe running a Linux VMWare session with PHP, MySQL and Apache as well.

I post this here because I am not sure if this is a coding problem or something else. Has anyone ever heard of a setup like my production setup that may have caused problems? MIME in general seems to be fighting because if I did this with a Base64 encoded message it seems like it does not decode when received and looks like gibberish.

Ok, I am sure I missed some critical info here so if you need more, just ask. (Within security limits of course :p )

Thanks,

Aludaan

[drew010]

hi, i tried the same code you put above on my own server and the messages comes to me fine, with no extra text in the message. perhaps your mail server or php version is adding another \r\n and its stopping with the headers prior to sending them all.
try removing the \r\n after content-type: text/html and see what happens. if that doesnt fix it im not sure what it could be.

[Aludaan]

"try removing the \r\n after content-type: text/html and see what happens."

That is exactly what it was. I thank you very much for your assistance with this problem.

Aludaan

[piersk]

Originally posted by Aludaan

<?php
$mail_html = "<p>This is a test<br><font color=\"#FF0000\">Testing... 1... 2... 3.</font>";
$header.="From: Mr. Bill";
$header.="\r\n";
$header.="Content-type: text/html;\r\n";
mail("[e-mail]", "testing", "$mail_html","$header");
php?>

[/B]

Not sure if this will solve it or not, but why do you have

php?>

instead of

?>

right at the end??

[Aludaan]

Heh, 2 main reasons that I use php?> at the end of my code.

1. It was easier to remember when I was learning it.

2. This is a big one too. It gives balance to it.... they match, but in reverse order.

I have strange habits but it did not hurt anything so I never corrected it. 😃

Aludaan

[laserlight]

Originally posted by Aludaan
I have strange habits but it did not hurt anything so I never corrected it. 😃

It does "hurt".
There should be a notice about a mysterious undefined constant lying around in your script.
However, since your error reporting was probably set at E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE, you never noticed it.