",hj" <webmaster@mail.com> wrote in message
news:bq8783$gs9$1@titan.btinternet.com...[color=blue]
>
> From: ",hj" <webmaster@mail.com>
> Subject: Losing random characters in HTML email
> Date: 28 November 2003 17:21
>
> I've narrowed down my code as much as I can so that I can show you this[/color]
bug.[color=blue]
> The reason the a's are there and not removed is because if I remove them[/color]
the[color=blue]
> problem doesn't show itself. It seems that there is a pattern and the nth
> character does not show. Weird stuff.
>
>
> <?php
> $content = '
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>aaaaaaa :: title</title>
> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1">
> <META name="Description" content="aaaaaar -
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaae.">
> <META name="Keywords"
> content="aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>[/color]
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa[color=blue]
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa
>[/color]
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa[color=blue]
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaae">
> <LINK rel="stylesheet"
> href="aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa"[/color]
type="text/css">[color=blue]
> </head>
> <body>
> contentdfdfdf
> </body>
> </html>';
> $header = "Return-Path:
failed@aaaaaaa.com\r\n";
> $header .= "From: Gamblar <accounts@aaaaaaa.com>\r\n";
> $header .= "Content-Type: text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1;\r\n\r\n";
>
> mail("webmaster@aaaaaaaaaaa.com","accounts@aaaaaaa .com",$content,$header);
> ?>
>
> Try that code, changing the first mail attribute to your email address.[/color]
You[color=blue]
> should get this output: "contentdfdfdf </html".
>
> Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Bug, perhaps?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Keiron[/color]
You wouldn't happen to be using PHP version 4.3.3 would you?
I had problems with random characters disappearing when using the mail()
function to send MIME encoded emails. This mail() bug has been reported at
the
www.php.net website, it seems to have been fixed in 4.3.4.
