Mail & Outlook Express

[joe_C_nice]

I'm sending an html email to members subscribed to a mailing list.

However, the email isn't showing up as intended. This only occures in Outlook Express, Hotmail displays the email correctly.

Here's the html code being sent.

<font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Features:</span></font><br>
<ul>
<li>Shipping modules</li>
<li>Gateway modules</li>
<li>More</li></ul><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 129, 215);"></span><br>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;" color="#0081ff">
<br>
<table style="width: 385px; height: 73px;" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="font-weight: bold; font-family: courier;">&nbsp;Files:</td>
<td>&nbsp;<font style="font-family: courier;" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Size</span></font><span style="font-family: courier;"></span></td>
<td>&nbsp;<font style="font-family: courier;" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Name</span></font></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;/images</td>
<td>250MB <br></td>
<td>Products <br></td></tr>
<tr>
<td>/icons <br></td>
<td>2MB <br></td>
<td>Members <br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>

I'll attach two images so you guys can see what it looks like in Hotmail and Outlook Express.

[Merve]

This might seem obvious, but maybe you've disabled viewing HTML in Outlook Express and e-mails will be viewed as only text.

Okay, that's too easy, it's probably something else. Have you tested it in Outlook Express on more than computer? If not, I may be right.

[joe_C_nice]

It's been tested on several different machines. Also html is enabled.

[joe_C_nice]

Anymore suggestions?

[twister47]

I had this problem and I just spent the last 892304123904129034 hours trying to figure out why the heck it was happening.

I found out that Outlook does not like the '/r/n' that the php manual shows in its example for HTML email.

Take the /r off your headers until the very last one. Then it should work just fine.

		
$headers = 'Content-Disposition: inline' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"' . "\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
$headers .= 'From:  <[e-mail]>' . "\n";
$headers .= 'To: [e-mail]' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Reply-To: [e-mail]'. "\r\n";