#20340 [Opn->Bgs]: mail() incorrectly strips multiple \r\n

ID: 20340 Updated by: richard@php.net Reported By: _@mrmachine.net -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Mail related Operating System: Windows XP SP1 PHP Version: 4CVS-2002-11-10 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-10 11:29:56] richard@php.net You should not put the entirety of your mail in the headers arg. Put the headers in the headers, and the body in the body. Multiple instances of CRLF in the headers would indicate the separation between headers and body of the mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-10 11:10:11] _@mrmachine.net the bug system seems to have entered an erroneous carriage return on line 7 of my example code. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-11-10 11:04:58] _@mrmachine.net tested on 4.3pre2 and 4.3-snapshot (2002-11-10). php4/win32/sendmail.c contains: /* This pattern removes \r\n from the start of the string, * \r\n from the end of the string and also makes sure every line * is only wrapped with a single \r\n (thus reduces multiple * occurences of \r\n between lines to a single \r\n) */ #define PHP_WIN32_MAIL_RMVDBL_PATTERN "/^\r\n|(\r\n)+$/m" #define PHP_WIN32_MAIL_RMVDBL_REPLACE "" i'm not certain if the applicable specification(s) require that there be NO multiple occurences of \r\n in a mime message, but this addition has broken compatibility with outlook express clients at the very least, which seems to depend on multiple \r\n to separate content blocks. it will also unecessarily alter valid mail content, and therefore i believe \r\n should only be stripped from the beginning and end of the message, if at all. example code: --cut-- $headers = 'From: _@mrmachine.net' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed;' . "\r\n"; $headers .= ' boundary="703c1875a9605c5619dd34f7642dcad8"' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit' . "\r\n\r\n"; $headers .= 'This is a multi-part message in MIME format.' . "\r\n\r\n"; $headers .= '--703c1875a9605c5619dd34f7642dcad8' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-Type: text/html;' . "\r\n"; $headers .= ' charset="iso-8859-1"' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit' . "\r\n\r\n"; $headers .= '<pre>' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'test paragraph 1' . "\r\n\r\n"; $headers .= 'test paragraph 2' . "\r\n"; $headers .= '</pre>' . "\r\n\r\n"; $headers .= '--703c1875a9605c5619dd34f7642dcad8--' . "\r\n"; mail('_@mrmachine.net', 'test', null, $headers); --cut-- the above code will deliver a seemingly empty email. if the message source is viewed, you will find that even had the content been displayed, it would not be as the sender had intended (no blank line between paragraphs): --cut-- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <pre> test paragraph 1 test paragraph 2 </pre> --703c1875a9605c5619dd34f7642dcad8-- --cut-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=20340&edit=1