Re: Trouble with sending multipart Email

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:15:30 +1000, Disco Octopus
<discooctopus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am having a bit of difficulty when sending mail() with multipart.
>
>Under a Windows server, it is working nicely. I am receiving the email
>message in HTML.
>
>Howver, When I run the code under a Unix server the emails I am receiving a
>the entire raw message in the message body of my Outlook client.
>
>Here is the PHP that is running....
>
>
>
> if (empty($to)){
> return(false);
> }
>
> if (empty($from)){
> return(false);
> }
>
> $headers = "";
> $headers .= "From: Speed Queen <$from>\r\n";
> $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
> $headers .= "To: $toname <$to>\r\n";
> $headers .= "Reply-To: $from\r\n";
> $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP" . "phpversion()\r\n";
> $headers .= "X-Sender: $from\r\n";
> $headers .= "Return-Path: $from\r\n";
> $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>boundary=$boundary\r\n\r\n";
>
> //message to people with clients who don't
> //understand MIME
> $headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message\r\n\r\n";
>
> $body = "";
> //plain text version of message
> $body .= "--$boundary\r\n";
> $body .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
> $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";
> $body .= $body_plain;
>
> //HTML version of message
> $body .= "--$boundary\r\n";
> $body .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
> $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";
> $body .= $body_html;
>
> $body .= "\r\n";
>
> return (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers));
>
>
>
>Can anyone see anyting in here that could be made "nicer" or that would be
>a reason why when run on a different server, different results are seen?
>
>Thanks

Multipart emails should have the entire message in the header, at
least that is the way I have always done it. Your closing boundary
should be at the end of the content.

Compare the structure of your email against one that you know that is
properly interpreted by the email client.

.

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