Problems send MIME multipart/alternative mail with php

[Dan Van Derveer]

I have had no success sending multipart/alternative emails with php. I have
tried everyone's various code snippets with no luck. I test the results with
Outlook and Outlook Express. Everytime my boundary tag ends up showing as
part of my message and thus the plain text and html portions show up as one
long blob of unformatted text. Below is the code I am currently using. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dan

The code:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
//FUNCTION future
multipartmailer($to,$from,$subject,$plaintextsourc e,$htmlsource);
//$boundry="**=-=-=D-=-=-=-MIME-A-Boundry-=-=-N=-=-=-**";
$boundry= "---=".uniqid("MAILDIVIDERS");
//set mime type

$headers="From: Person <ppersom@mail.com>\n";
$headers.= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers.="Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=\"$boundry\"\n";
//these files have the raw message content
$plaintext = file("plaintextcontent.txt");
$html = file("htmlcontent.txt");
//warning for non-MIME lovin' clients

$headers .= "This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not
understand this format, some or all of this message may not be
legible.\n\r\n\r";

// CHOP
$message .= $boundry."\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\r";
foreach($plaintext as $line) {
****$message .=$line;
}
$message .="\n".$boundry."\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
foreach($html as $line) {
****$message .=$line;
}
$message .="\n".$boundry."\n";
mail("me@me.com","Welcome to the Website",$message,$headers);
print $headers."".$message."<br>";

?>
</body>
</html

[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 08/19/2003 04:56 PM, Dan Van Derveer wrote:

> I have had no success sending multipart/alternative emails with php. I have
> tried everyone's various code snippets with no luck. I test the results with
> Outlook and Outlook Express. Everytime my boundary tag ends up showing as
> part of my message and thus the plain text and html portions show up as one
> long blob of unformatted text. Below is the code I am currently using. Any
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

That looks like a bug of the mail() function. You may want to try this
class that provides an easy interface for composing and sending
multipart/alternative MIME messages and has workarounds for some of the
mail() function problems:

[url]http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage[/url]

--

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP
[url]http://www.phpclasses.org/[/url]

[Dragonbaki]

I also hav the same problem while sending mail.... Thanks in advance for any good solutions........