Getting extra line space in mail...

[zzz]

I have a txt file with a canned message. When it is sent and arrives at my mailbox it has doubled line breaks...

I get something like this:

Dear werw werw,

Thank you for registering.

Your new Account information is:

New line

There should be just a paragraph type break.

I'm on Unix, could that be some sort of interpretation that could be corrected?

[Rodney_H_]

Why not post your code?

[zzz]

My canned message is in a .txt file:

Subject: New Account Registration Infomation
Format: text

Dear {$name_f} {$name_l},

Thank you for registering.

Your new Account information is:
...

and the file is called through a function:

function mail_signup_user($member_id){
    global $t, $db, $config;
    if (!is_object($t))
        $t = & new_smarty();
    $u = $db->get_user($member_id);
    $u['name'] = $u['name_f'] . ' ' . $u['name_l'];
    ///////////////////////////////////
    $t->assign('login', $u['login']);
    $t->assign('pass',  $u['pass']);
    $t->assign('name_f', $u['name_f']);
    $t->assign('name_l', $u['name_l']);
    ///////////////////////////////////
    $t->assign('user', $u);
    ///////////////////////////////////
    $mail = $t->fetch("signup_mail.txt");
    mail_customer($u['email'], $mail, "Signup Completed");
}

[Rodney_H_]

Why not just move the lines closer together in the .txt file:

Dear {$name_f} {$name_l},
Thank you for registering.
Your new Account information is:
...

[zzz]

Sorry, perhaps that was a bad example that I provided. Later in that txt file I have lines the way you suggested, however at the beginning where I put a few pieces of important information I separate that info by blank line of space.

The problem is that when it arrives in the mailbox, where I had no space I get an extra line of space, where I had one line break, it's now two or three...

[zzz]

I've attempted something like that but with no luck!

$mail = $t->fetch("signup_mail.txt");
$mail = ereg_replace("(\n|\n\r){2,}", "\\1", $mail);

[Rodney_H_]

Hmm. I am not sure. I am grasping here, but how about a simple string replacement:

<?php
$replace = array("\n", "\r\n", "\r", "\n\r");

$mail = str_replace($replace, '', $mail);
?>

[zzz]

It's hopeless... 🙁

I've attempted your code, except I took away \n

$replace = array("\n", "\r\n", "\r", "\n\r"); 

And got a message with each line separated by a blank like. Really ugly...

[Rodney_H_]

Hmmm... Not hopeless. But I am curious. What happens when you just mail the text file?? Can you try this test. Should take just a minute or two...

<?php
$file = 'signup_mail.txt';
$handle = fopen($file, 'r');
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($file));
mail('[e-mail]', 'test', $contents, 'From: [e-mail]');
fclose($handle);
?>
 

[zzz]

OK, this finally worked:

$mail=str_replace ("\n\n", "\r\n", $mail);
$mail=str_replace ("\n", "\r", $mail);

go figure...

[Rodney_H_]

Nice one!