mail sent by php to outlook missing two characters after every equals sign

[karen]

hi, not sure if this is a php issue or an outlook issue or what.

trying to send an html message via php, and it looks fine in hotmail,
yahoo, and earthlink webmail, but when i receive the same message (via
earthlinkg) into outlook, there are two characters missing after every
equals = sign. of course, this destroys the html. (actually, i
haven't tried sending any plain text versions that include =. maybe
it messes up those too??) any ideas?

i did see one post about it here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/..._20981077.html
but these people want money to show you the answer. if anyone here
knows what's going on (or if anyone has a subscription to that site!),
please help!

thanks,
-karen

[Data Goob]

karen wrote:

hi, not sure if this is a php issue or an outlook issue or what.

trying to send an html message via php, and it looks fine in hotmail,
yahoo, and earthlink webmail, but when i receive the same message (via
earthlinkg) into outlook, there are two characters missing after every
equals = sign. of course, this destroys the html. (actually, i
haven't tried sending any plain text versions that include =. maybe
it messes up those too??) any ideas?

i did see one post about it here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/..._20981077.html
but these people want money to show you the answer. if anyone here
knows what's going on (or if anyone has a subscription to that site!),
please help!

thanks,
-karen

actually since you're using HTML ( and not XML ) you don't really need to
quote anything but the $diatery2 variable. Take the quotes off of everything
else:

input type=text/html size=30 value=none name=\"$diatery2\"

See what happens. You may also have a loose quote somewhere else in your $html
that you should try to find.

-DG-

[ziggy stardust]

the code listed here
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/..._20981077.html is not
mine; i did not post that message. i just found it while looking for the
answer to my question.

and quotes aren't really the problem. that problem is that the next two
characters after every = are missing, so

href=http://blah.com becomes href=tp://blah.com. not good! has anyone
encountered this problem before??

thanks,

-k

"Data Goob" <da******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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actually since you're using HTML ( and not XML ) you don't really need to quote anything but the $diatery2 variable. Take the quotes off of everything
else: input type=text/html size=30 value=none name=\"$diatery2\" See what happens. You may also have a loose quote somewhere else in your $html
that you should try to find. -DG-

[John Dunlop]

karen wrote:

hi, not sure if this is a php issue or an outlook issue or what.
Maybe both. ;o)
trying to send an html message via php, and it looks fine in hotmail,
yahoo, and earthlink webmail, but when i receive the same message (via
earthlinkg) into outlook, there are two characters missing after every
equals = sign.

Sounds like the mail headers say it's encoded, with quoted-
printable encoding (RFC2045 sec. 6.7) for example, but it
isn't. What headers are you sending?

[ ... ]

HAGW!

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Jock

[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

On 09/11/2004 10:46 AM, karen wrote:

hi, not sure if this is a php issue or an outlook issue or what.

trying to send an html message via php, and it looks fine in hotmail,
yahoo, and earthlink webmail, but when i receive the same message (via
earthlinkg) into outlook, there are two characters missing after every
equals = sign. of course, this destroys the html. (actually, i
haven't tried sending any plain text versions that include =. maybe
it messes up those too??) any ideas?

i did see one post about it here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/..._20981077.html
but these people want money to show you the answer. if anyone here
knows what's going on (or if anyone has a subscription to that site!),
please help!

It seems that you have specified in the Content-Type header that the
message uses quoted-printable but it is not being properly encoded.

You may want to try this class that is capable of encoding any kind of
message parts as quoted printable:

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage
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[Anthony Ogden]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 06:46:15 -0700, karen wrote:

i did see one post about it here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/..._20981077.html
but these people want money to show you the answer. if anyone here
knows what's going on (or if anyone has a subscription to that site!),
please help!

thanks,
-karen

Check out the mail page on the php site...
http://uk.php.net/mail

There is a qp_printable function submitted by a user there which will
encode your mail as quoted printable which is what Outlook seems to be
expecting.

In quoted printable the = signs signifies that the next two chars specify
the character code eg. '=34' would a quote.

I haven't tested this myself but I know a little about the quoted
printable problems as I once had to write a mailbox program for a
support team and process quoted printable emails.

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