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html mail() - Ê everywhere?

mavr1kwest

Afternoon, I wrote a script to send html formatted email to a given address, but when the email arrives it has the following character randomly placed in the message a few times: Ê

These are the headers im sending with the email:

MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/html\r\nFrom:Me<me@domain.com>\r\n

All on one line.. the mail is perfectly formatted in HTML when it arrives.. it just has that darn character everywhere.

What can I do?

tsinka

Hi,

please post the code that creates and sends the mail.

Thomas

mavr1kwest

Originally posted by tsinka
Hi,

please post the code that creates and sends the mail.

Thomas

function sendMail($email, $code, $name) {
$html = "<html><head><title></title></head><body>";
$subject = "EnSky Video Business Card Receipt";
$message = "Dear ".$name.", <br>


<p>
 This was the first step in the process, now itâ€™s the fun part!  Filming your Video Monologue.
</p>
";

$message = $html.$message."</body></html>";
	mail($email, $subject, $message, "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/html\r\nFrom:Me<me@domain.com>\r\n","-fwebmaster@{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}") or die("Unable to send mail");
}

tsinka

Hi,

in your post I see itâ€™s ... so what character did you use ?

Use something like e.g. &acute; instead of that character. Or use the htmlentities function.

Thomas

mavr1kwest

I dont know what the html entity code is for it, but its basically just a capital E with a tilde or a carrot over the top of it... and it shows up all over the place in the resulting email.

tsinka

Hi,

try this:

<?PHP
function sendMail($email, $code, $name) { 
$html = "
<html>
  <head>
    <title>EnSky Video Business Card Receipt</title>
  </head>
  <body>
";

$subject = "EnSky Video Business Card Receipt"; 

$message = "
Dear $name,<br>
<p>
This was the first step in the process,&nbsp;
now it&acute;s the fun part!  Filming your Video&nbsp;
Monologue.
</p>
"; 

$message = $html.$message."</body>\n</html>";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From:Me<me@domain.com>\r\n";
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers,"-fwebmaster@{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}") or die("Unable to send mail"); 
}
?>

Try to specify the charset along with the Content-Type.

Thomas

mavr1kwest

Isnt that what Im doing right here?

$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

tsinka

Yes,

I already added that in the code I submitted since the charset was missing in your code (I just wrote that since this is the main difference between your code and my code).

The order of the headers might be important and you might need to add Content-transfer-Encoding and the "to" address in the headers.

Like e.g.

$headers  = "From: Me<me@domain.com>\r\n"; 
$headers .= "To: $email\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n";

I forgot to ask which OS/PHP/SMTP Server versions you use.

Thomas

mavr1kwest

aha, my bad.

I tried it with the headers you specified, still the randomly placed e character throughout the email.

This is running on a redhat 7.2 webserver, with PHP Version 4.3.1 - and its using sendmail, not sure which version as I dont have console access to the box.

tsinka

Ok,

too bad 🙁

Please post the HTML source of a received mail (if you have a mail client that allows you to view the source of a received HTML mail).

Thomas

Drakla

I'm just stabbing in the dark, but the mail function had a load of errors before php version 434 and it caused problems just like this. I had to write my own smtp routine, but really should have used the Heyes one. There was also a problem with huge emails if you didn't use chunk split to format the rows.