[RESOLVED] Mutlipart E-Mail not showing up correctly on Android phone

woodeye

I have a script that sends a multipart/mixed e-mail, it sends HTML and an attached vCard. If I check the e-mail on my iPhone or my mail client, it works fine. But when I test it on a co-worker's Android phone, the message has no content, but it says there are 2 attachments. If I click on the first attachment, it opens an HTML viewer and I can see the HTML part of the message, or I can click on the vCard and it will add it. Since the instructions to add a vCard are in the HTML, I need that to render when the message is opened, like it does on my iPhone.

Here's my code:

<?php
$email_to 		= "brian@domain.com";
$email_from 	= "brian@domain.com";
$email_subject 	= "TA vCard";
$vcard_type 	= "individual";   

$v_type = "company";
$v_company = "TA Experts";
$v_email = "experts@ta.com";
$v_web = "www.ta.com/experts";
$v_phone = "866-555-5555";
$vt = "WORK";

$vcard_content  = "BEGIN:VCARD\r";
$vcard_content .= "VERSION:3.0\r";
$vcard_content .= "FN:".$v_company."\r";
$vcard_content .= "ORG:".$v_company.";\r";
$vcard_content .= "EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=".$vt.";type=pref:".$v_email."\r";
$vcard_content .= "TEL;type=".$vt.";type=pref:".$v_phone."\r";
$vcard_content .= "item2.URL;type=pref:".$v_web."\r";
$vcard_content .= "X-ABShowAs:COMPANY\r";
$vcard_content .= "END:VCARD";

$message = '<html><head><title>TA - vCard</title></head><body><p>Thank you for downloading our vCard, please click on the link to add the contact information to your device.</p></body></html>';

$data = $vcard_content;
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

$headers = "From: ".$email_from;
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;" . " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";	
$message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n";
$message .=	"--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type:text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" . $message . "\n\n";
$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\n" . " name=\"TAExperts.vcf\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . $data . "\n\n" . "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";

$email_status = mail($email_to, $email_subject, $message, $headers);

echo $email_status ? "Success" : "Fail";
?>

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Brian

woodeye

Thank you for the reply.

I'm not sure if I understand completely, because when I tried this:

$message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" . "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\n" . " Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"TAExperts.vcf\"\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" . $data . "\n\n" . "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";

It didn't work on any device. I tried a bunch of variations of that, but no luck with any of them.

woodeye

Thanks for your help.

It looks like it may be a setting on that particular e-mail account, we setup a GMail account and tested it and it works fine. We've also tested on another Android phone, and it seems to be working.

Sorry to have wasted your time, but thank you for trying to help.
Brian