php html mail problem

[KenKnight]

Hi all,

I've got the debian etch perfect setup and have run into a problem where trying to send html emails from php are not being processed correctly.

Even simple code such as;

<?php


//define the receiver of the email
$to = 'someone@nowhere.com';
//define the subject of the email
$subject = 'Test HTML email';
//create a boundary string. It must be unique
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time()));
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n
$headers = "From: someone@nowhere.com\r\nReply-To: someone@nowhere.com";
//add boundary string and mime type specification
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\"";
//define the body of the message.
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering
?>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello World!!! 
This is simple text email message. 

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> 
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<h2>Hello World!</h2>
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p>

--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--
<?
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer
$message = ob_get_clean();
//send the email
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" 
echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";


?>

The message received by outlook looks like plain text messages. Regardless of what we try.

Mail server is Postfix if that helps.

Thanks,
Ken

[KenKnight]

This appears to be a \r\n problem ,however, even trying remove the \r does not fix the problem.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
ken

[falko]

Have you tried to save the file with Unix line breaks (\n) instead of Windows line breaks (\r\n)?

[KenKnight]

I've run some more tests and I'm not sure which item fixed it, but it is now working. Things done were;

1) used mime part info

2) saved as unix

3) removed \r's from header info.

Thanks,
Ken