HTML Email Problems

[alfoxy]

Hi All,

I am trying to send a html page as an email.

I have tried sending it as an attachment or as a HTML email.

I have the following code for the latter

$content_type = "text/html";
# read file from the disk
$fd = fopen($filename, "r");
$data = fread($fd, filesize($filename));
fclose($fd);

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'From: E. Fox Engineers <[e-mail]>' . "\r\n";
mail("[e-mail]","E. Fox Eng Qte",$data, $headers);

The problem is that it seems to miss the odd bracket so the message comes out a bit mixed up.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening?

Thanks,

Alan

[dagon]

make sure the source is valid html

[alfoxy]

Yeah the source file is fine. It appears fine in the browser but when I read it into the email it comes up slightly mixed up on the otherside

[dagon]

just because it looks right in your browser does not mean its valid html. Email clients tend to be fussy and outlook uses word not ie to parse html email.

[alfoxy]

I checked the HTML and it all looks good.

The problem as I now see it is that when I send it in the email I loose random letters. Eg every 50 lines or 1000 characters or somthing I loose a character.

Some of the time it misses completely and doesn't matter but sometimes it hits a > from a table tag which screws everything up.

Any suggestions?

Al