multipart mails! Finally works

Anon

Hey,

for all of you boys and girls, that had a hard time trying to mail() a multiform/alternative type mail, so that even outlook accepts it as HTML-mail (and not plain-text), here's what finally made it work for me:

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$to = "me@myoffice.de";

$msg = "Hier kommt\r\nauch noch blabla\r\n\r\n--=NextPart_001_01C0AD47.541F6CF0\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\r\n\r\n";
$msg.= "This is text part\n\n";

$msg.= "--=NextPart_001_01C0AD47.541F6CF0\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\r\n\r\n";
$msg.= "<HEAD></HEAD><BODY>This is some HTML</BODY>\r\n\r\n--=NextPart_001_01C0AD47.541F6CF0--";

mail($to,"Test",$msg,"Mime-Version: 1.0\nFrom: $to\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative;\tboundary=\"=NextPart_001_01C0AD47.541F6CF0\"");

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Very important is the '\t' instead of a newline before the boundary information in the mail-header.

Hope, that helps somebody

Tom

toma42

Very cool. Here's the same code cleaned up some so you can see exactly what's happening a little easier:

$mailto = 'me@myoffice.de';

$mailsubject = 'Test';

$mailheaders =
'Mime-Version: 1.0
From: ' . $mailto . '
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;' . "\t" . 'boundary="=NextPart_001_01C0AD47.541F6CF0"
';

$msg = '
Hier kommt
nauch noch blabla

--=NextPart_001_01C0AD47.541F6CF0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This is text part

--=NextPart_001_01C0AD47.541F6CF0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

--=NextPart_001_01C0AD47.541F6CF0--';

mail($mailto, $mailsubject, $msg, $mailheaders);

Anon

What are the two text parts?