mail headers problem

dhodge

I'm forced to send some email plain/text email with php but the email always comes with Message-ID, Sender, and Date headers attached to the top of the message. I suspect this might be because of the server but does anyone know how to get rid of it? Here is the only 2 headers I specify in my code...

	
$heqders = "Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $Email <$Email>\r\n"

dhodge

minus the misspelling

bradgrafelman

A few things:

The "edit" button does just that; allows you to EDIT your post instead of replying.
The other headers are probably part of an RFC standard and are therefore automatically generated by sendmail (or qmail, or whatever mail program your server is using). I doubt it would allow you to disable this RFC compliancy, but I'm not for sure as I'm no Unix guru.
So? Why are the headers a problem? Do you mean you can actually see the "Message-ID: 0123456789test@myserver" header in the message itself?
There's a couple of things about your code I don't like, too. You can simply combine the two statements onto one line, no need to split em up (that's what the linebreaks are for!). Also, why are you adding a linebreak after your "From:" header? There's no more headers to send... there shouldn't be a delimiter there. Example:

$headers = "Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii\r\nFrom: $Email <$Email>";

dhodge

forgot about the edit thing
yes they show up in the message and its a problem to my boss
yes they could be combined but for readable purposes they are seperated even though the concatenate takes a small amount of time. And the delimiter was there because I had another header line after the From which I removed after I pasted the code in here...

bradgrafelman

Was this other header(s) removed for security reasons?

If so, do you have an extra CRLF on the end of your last header? The PHP manual is confuzzling me a bit... if you dont have a CRLF on your last header, add one. If you do have one, remove it.

Try an e-mail again and let me know if that changed anything.

Also, what version of PHP are you running and on what O/S ?

EDIT: Are any lines in your headers over 78 characters (excluding CRLF) ?

EDIT2: RFC 2822 says terminate headers with CRLF so... make sure you have a terminating CRLF on all headers (including last one). There are some more restrictions, such as they must be US-ASCII printible characters, etc.

dhodge

4.3.10-10
Linux lnx02 2.6.7-1-386 #1

I talked to our hosting company and found out that they use exim and to read up about some things php does when working with a exim mail server. He said something about not using the \r so Im going to experiment more.

bradgrafelman

Alright, so your PHP version isn't causing the problem (assuming its not an unknown bug; not likely at this point).

I don't know anything about "Exim" mail servers, but it sounds like they convert CR to CRLF automatically. If that's the case, your script would indeed violate RFC 2822 and might even cause the error you're experiencing.

In that case, do as they said; only use LF's as your delimiter ("\n") and see if that works.

NOTE: This is a known issue with various mail servers, and is listed on the manual page for mail() under the additional_headers explanation in a note.

dhodge

the html email is now working...the \r was it. Thanks for the help.

bradgrafelman

Anytime.

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