[RESOLVED] Problem with mail()

[dwarfer]

Hi,

The function works fine really in my setup. The email is sent, and it's formatted as i'd like with one draw back.

Every email I send with the function, regardless of how the script makes the inputs, is recieved with white space at the top of the email.

Has anyone encountered this before? If some code is needed to help see the problem, just ask, but it's pretty standard.

Thanks to anyone that can help.

Will

[bradgrafelman]

Have you done a real simple test, i.e.

mail('[e-mail]', 'testing', 'testing.');

? If so, what was the result? Still have whitespace?

It's certainly possible that your server host has some headers or something tagged onto every outgoing message, though.

Show us some code and let's rule out a coding error, though.

[dwarfer]

The really simple example does not produce any white space, and I've tried that on 2 different servers - so the server doesn't seem to be the problem.

So bring on the code :bemused:

if (isset($send) && $send == "send")
	{
	$bodyedited2 = stripslashes($body);
	$bodyedited1 = str_replace("<br>","\n",$bodyedited2);
	$bodyedited = str_replace("<p>","\n\n",$bodyedited1);
	$emails = array();
	$emails = mailinglist();
	foreach ($emails as $temp)
		{
		$to = $temp[email];
		$subject = $subject;
		$message = "Hi ";
		$message .= $temp[firstname];
		$message .= "\n\n";
		$message .= $bodyedited;
		$message .= "\n\n";
		$message .= $sender;
		$message .= "\n";
		$message .= $senderemail;
		$message .= "\n\nYou have recieved this email from yorkbiosciences.co.uk as you are registered with the University of York's Biosciences Society.";
		$mailheaders = "From: $senderemail <> \n";
		$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $senderemail\n\n";
		mail ($to,$subject,$message,$mailheaders)
		or print "Could not send mail";
		}
	}

That's an example of one place where I'm using mail() and it's producing white space. It's looping through a mailing list table.

Does anything obvious pop out at you?

Thanks again.

[bradgrafelman]

Try changing this:

        $mailheaders = "From: $senderemail <> \n"; 
        $mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $senderemail\r\n"; 

to this:

        $mailheaders = "From: $senderemail <> \r\n"; 
        $mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $senderemail\r\n"; 

And if that doesn't work, can you have the script generate & send me an e-mail? bradgrafelman AT nospam.gmail.com (remove the 'nospam' bit obviously... last thing I need is some webbot grabbing my address and spamming me 😉)

[dwarfer]

It didn't work unfortunately, but i've had the script send you and email. Should be there now.

[bradgrafelman]

Hm. Interesting. Did you make the changes I noted above? If so, try getting rid of the line break after the last header:

$mailheaders = "From: $senderemail <> \r\n"; 
        $mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $senderemail"; 

[dwarfer]

Fantastic 😃 that last change worked, taking the \n out of the header.

Thanks so much for that, appreciate it.

[bradgrafelman]

Glad to have helped. Don't forget to mark the thread resolved.