[RESOLVED] text/plain or text/html?

emeraldcat

Hi!

I have a site (that someone else programmed) and I'm trying to fix a problem with the email formatting.

There are five or six php scripts that send an email after registration, renewal, etc..

The only script that sends an email which is formatted correctly (ie, with line breaks in the body) is the one that says:

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

The scripts that say text/html DON'T format the emails correctly.

Isn't this backwards? Or should I just change all of the scripts to text/plain and not try to make sense of it? 😕

eCat

thorpe

Its depends. Are these html formatted emails, or plain text?

emeraldcat

They look like this (minus real info):

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: info@yourdomain.com";
$subject = "Successful registration at yourdomain.com";
//$headers .= "X-Mailer: Linux Server";
$message="\n\nWelcome to yourdomain.com. Your username is  ".$user." and your password is ".$pswd;
$message .= "\n\n\nSincerely,\nyourdomain.com";
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);

Does that help? :o

Ludichrist

What does the html that you're sending look like. If it's valid html, then it should look fine.

thorpe

Thay are just plain text, so using "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; headers would be recomended.

emeraldcat

That makes sense... so that's why \n isn't putting a line break in the text/html scripts because it is looking for <br> instead, right?

Weedpacket

Right; scripts that are sent as text/html will be processed and rendered as HTML - spacing rules and all (unless of course the mail client can't/won't render HTML in the first place).