HTML email problem..

jduk

I have a email problem with the following code. This was perfectly working fine and sending a HTML email earlier. Recently we have moved to a new server and the email does not display the HTML, it just displays as a text message. Can some one advice me in this regard?

Thanks in advance fro your help!

<? include("config.php")?>
<?
$sql = "insert into tbluser (
yourName,
yourEmail,
yourFName,
friendsEmail,
yourMessage,
yourScore,
post_date
) values ('".
$POST['yourName']."','".
$POST['yourEmail']."','".
$POST['yourFName']."','".
$POST['friendsEmail']."','".
$POST['yourMessage']."','".
$POST['yourScore']."','".
date('y-m-d',strtotime("now()"))."')";
//die($sql);
mysql_query($sql) or die("Error is ".mysql_error());
$id = mysql_insert_id();
if (isset($POST['yourEmail'])){
$HTML = "Dear ".$POST['yourFName'].",\n\n";
$HTML .= "Check out this cheeky little outfit designed by me exclusively for you! Click on the following link to view the outfit. <a href='http://www.domainname.com/folder/game/viewDesign1.php?id=".$id."' target='blank'>http://www.domainname.com/folder/game/viewDesign1.php?id=".$id."</a>
 
".$POST['yourMessage']."
 Thanks, ".$_POST['yourName'];

$to = $_POST['friendsEmail'];
$sub = "Your friend (".$_POST['yourName'].")  sent you an email.";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers = "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers = "Return-Path: [email]bounces@domain.com[/email]\r\n";
$headers = "bcc: [email]webmaster@domain.com[/email]\r\n";
$headers = "From:  ".trim($_POST['yourName'])."<".trim($_POST['yourEmail']).">\r\n";
mail($to, $sub, $HTML, $headers);
}

?>

suntra

Can you post an email WITH the headers ?!

By the way :
-> Not sure, but I think even in emails, you should specify <html> and <body>...
-> When inserting values "from the outside", you should use mysql_real_escape_string() to prevent MySQL injection..

Houdini

Use long tags to start with like this

<? include("config.php")?>
<?

should be changed to this

<?php include("config.php")?>
<?php

jduk

I have changed
<? include("config.php") ?> to <? include("config.php"); ?>
and changed
$headers = to $headers .=

Then it worked perfectly in Yahoo and Hot mail and in other accounts.
Now the new problem is 'gmail' still shows as text mail and showing sender as (unknown sender). Any advice in tis regard?

Thanks in advance.

Houdini

All your code that uses short tags ie: <? and ?> instead of <?php ?> needs to be changed to the long version of <?php in order to work properly.

jduk

Thanks and I will follow it.

I have solved the problem with Yahoo and hotmail. Still I have got the proble with Gmail. Gmail shows the sender's name as (unknown sender). Have you got any solution / suggestion?

jduk

Hi Guys,

Thanks very much in deed for the help. Now the problem has been fixed forever. Juat a quick brief about the problem.

The same script mentioned in the top was working fine when it was run on our old server since couple of years. When we have migrated to a new server last month, all these strange problems started. With all the research these days, I have found the PHP core info shows "safe_mode=on" is the major point. By restricting the PHP to safe mode all more than 35 functions had few limitations as stated on the php.net site. So mail(); had some limitations with some mail clients.

Please follow the link to know more about it.

http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.functions.php

Also, we had a problem with gmail while compared with different emails like Yahoo, hotmail..etc. Follow this link to know more on Gmail problem.

http://www.bigroom.co.uk/blog/php-mail-and-gmail/
http://www.ablogapart.org/2005/12/07/php-mail-and-gmail-a-warning-on-headers/

and finally, the following code worked when I removed \r from \r\n

			$to = $_POST['friendsEmail'];
			$sub = "Subject line goes here";
			$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0'\n";
			$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
			$headers .= "Return-Path: xyzxyz@domainname.com\n";
			$headers .= "From:  ".trim($_POST['yourName'])."<".trim($_POST['yourEmail']).">\n";
			mail($to, $sub, $HTML, $headers);

Thanks,

Jag

suntra

There's a missing space there...

$headers = "From: ".trim($_POST['yourName'])."<".trim($_POST['yourEmail']).">\r\n";
..............................................^

The format usually is "Name" <address> (notice the space between both)...