Bug #13044 [Com]: unexpected characters in mail

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13044&edit=1 ID: 13044 Comment by: brendan at brendanenglish dot com Reported by: michalprv at poland dot com Summary: unexpected characters in mail Status: No Feedback Type: Bug Package: Mail related Operating System: linux PHP Version: 4.0.6 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Try using 'wordwrap' when sending the message, this should break up the email and fix the issue: @mail($to, $subject, wordwrap($message), $headers); Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-04-15 13:35:24] indeyets at gmail dot com This is a standard limit of sendmail/smtp. See here for details: http://safari.oreilly.com/1565928393/ch20-77125 Solution is to use base64-encoding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-04-07 20:45:26] ryan dot morrow at gmail dot com I was having a similar problem sending the Content-Type: text/html through the php mail() function. Extra spaces were being inserted almost randomly. If I added text, the space would move down the number of spaces I added. I was pulling the HTML from a database, and everything was inserted on a single line. Inserting newlines corrected the problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-03-18 11:28:31] michael dot reiter at univr dot it I had several links in my HTML email. The effect described above could be resolved by adding the target attribute to the link. Note that exactly the same HTML would be correct and would bring no error within browsers. This effect only applies to HTML emails sent with the PHP mail() function. <a href="url">text</a> in some emails causes the characters <p> to be inserted at the end of paragraphs or spaces to be inserted within words (splitting them up) in the subsequent html <a href="url" target="_self">text</a> (also target="_blank" or whatever) does not bring this effect ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-03-18 09:04:57] michael dot reiter at univr dot it I have this problem with PHP 5.2.5. Seems that when the message exceeds a certain length it adds strange characters (</p> in the message, splits a word with a space character, ...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-08-14 19:14:44] kinadian at cogeco dot ca I ran into this same problem. I was able to fix it by adding in newline characters. From what I can determine, it is caused by too many characters on one line. In my case, I was sending an HTML e-mail and I didn't bother with newlines because I was using HTML formatting. By adding newline characters (I added them where I would if I were creating a nicely formated HTML webpage) I was able to avoid this bug. I hope this helps you guys too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13044 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13044&edit=1