wrong font and color on HTML email

sirTemplar

i have a mail script to send users from my mailing list. i have a page where i input the text in html and a script to process it. it works but with only one problem: the mail received shows the wrong font and color! what could be the problem? here is the php code:

#Send messages 

  while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs) ){ 

     $email = $row ['email']; 
     $msg = $email_text; 
	 $Subject_line = $subject_line;

	$headers = 'Content-Disposition: inline' . "\n";
	$headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable' . "\n";
	$headers .= 'Content-Type: text/html; charset="charset=windows-1252"' . "\n";
	$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
	$headers .= 'From:  Me <me@mysite.com>' . "\n";


     echo "Message has been sent to $email!<br>"; 

     mail($email, $Subject_line, $msg, $headers);    
	 }

?>

thorpe

i dont see anywhere in the message where you define a font or color. this meens that your email will default to whatever the clients mail reader defaults too. also be aware that for in order for your font to appear, the client needs it installed on there machine.

sirTemplar

i have another php file where i do the html input then it is processed by the above script. the fonts are mostly simple like verdana, arial etc. with blue, red or green. the output in outlook puts it into times roman and brown at times.

thorpe

is it valid html? can we see where you build the message?

sirTemplar

this is part of the page where i paste the html text to send to users

<form method="POST" action="process.php">
  <p><b><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Email to:</font></b></p>

<caption><font face="Verdana"><select size="1" name="lang">
<option>English</option>
<option>Italian</option>
<option>Spanish</option>
<option>Polish</option>
</select><font size="2"> </font></font></caption>
  </table>
  <p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Subject Line:</b> </font>
  <input type="text" name="subject_line" size="26"><font size="2"> </font>
  </font></p>
  <p><b><html><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Paste Email Here....</font></b></p>
  <p><font face="Verdana"><textarea rows="10" name="email_text" cols="65"></textarea></font></p>
  <p><font face="Verdana"><input type="submit" value="Send" name="B1"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></font></p>
</form>

then it is processed by the script process.php which a part of i posted already on my first post. i create the html on frontpage and paste it.

sirTemplar

let me show you the problem:

this is the html input

<html>
<body>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="IT">
<font size="6" color="#000080">This is a trial&nbsp;</font></span></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="IT">
<font size="4" color="#008000">This is a trial&nbsp;</font></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="IT">
<font size="6" face="Verdana" color="#0000FF">This is a trial&nbsp;</font></span></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="IT"><font size="4">
<font color="#00FFFF">This is a trial</font>&nbsp;</font></span></p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="IT">
<font size="6" face="Verdana" color="#FF0000">This is a trial&nbsp;</font></span></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="IT">
<font size="4" color="#800000">This is a trial&nbsp;</font></span></p>

</body>

</html>

see how it looks on the attched file...

the original from frontpage
how it looks via webmail
how it looks on outlook express

they are different!