HTML formatted email errors

[Paul Lamonby]

Hi,

I am generating a HTML formatted email in PHP, but I am getting the
most bizarre error, it will randomly delete characters out of the HTML
code while in transit to the address, therefore generating errors in
the final output.

For instance, a "</td>" tag will become "/td>" or a URL will end in
".co.k", missing the "u". This seems to happen totally randomly from
one try to the next throughout the code.

Has anyone had or seen this problem before?

The PHP code I use is straight forward, so no errors there.
I am using a lot of absolute URL paths to images and spacer gifs in
the email (about 20-30), is there a limit to what an email can handle?

I would appreciate any insight anyone has.

Cheers
Paul

[John Dunlop]

Paul Lamonby wrote:

I am generating a HTML formatted email in PHP,
Why?
but I am getting the most bizarre error, it will randomly delete
characters out of the HTML code while in transit to the address,
[ ... ]
is there a limit to what an email can handle?

Text lines may not exceed 1 000 characters.

--
Jock

[Brandon Blackmoor]

Paul Lamonby wrote:

I am generating a HTML formatted email in PHP

That's your problem right there. Email is text, not HTML.

bblackmoor
2004-06-14

[Paul Lamonby]

Thanks for the constructive comments, very helpful!
I too am not a fan of HTML formatted emails, but why create MIME types
in email and not use them? If a client requires HTML formatted emails
then thats what I will supply. ( I assume thats your direction of
comment. )

Paul

Brandon Blackmoor <bb********@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:<2j************@uni-berlin.de>...

Paul Lamonby wrote:

I am generating a HTML formatted email in PHP

That's your problem right there. Email is text, not HTML.

bblackmoor
2004-06-14

[John Dunlop]

Paul Lamonby wrote upside-down:

I too am not a fan of HTML formatted emails, but why create MIME types
in email and not use them?
I make use of MIME and have nothing to do with so-called HTML email.
If a client requires HTML formatted emails then thats what I will supply.

Yeah,

The son-of-a-bitch,
Is probably rich,
So smile with all your might.

(Noel Coward)

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Jock

[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 06/15/2004 09:22 AM, Paul Lamonby wrote:

Thanks for the constructive comments, very helpful!
I too am not a fan of HTML formatted emails, but why create MIME types
in email and not use them? If a client requires HTML formatted emails
then thats what I will supply. ( I assume thats your direction of
comment. )

I think most people ignore that you can send a message with plain text
and HTML versions in the same body message using MIME
multipart/alternative type. If you send your HTML messages like this,
there is no problem because you can still make your message readable
with e-mail clients that do not support text, even if the plain text
part says that this is an HTML message.

This is not a trivial task but if you want to send messages this way,
you may want to try this class to that makes it very simple:

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage
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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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