#29933 [NEW]: Certain subject Line characters cause mail() to fail

From: b dot parish at arts dot ac dot uk Operating system: Windows 2000 SP 4 PHP version: 4.3.8 PHP Bug Type: Mail related Bug description: Certain subject Line characters cause mail() to fail Description: ------------ The mail function cannot send the email has certain characters. For instance the following will not work $subject = "Joe bloggs edited the Personnel Record of Joe bloggs"; If I strip out the 'd's, it does work: $subject = "Joe bloggs edite the Personnel Recor of Joe bloggs"; mail("j.bloggs@arts.ac.uk", $subject, "test", ""); My php.ini has the following values: [mail function] ; For Win32 only. SMTP = mail.arts.ac.uk ; For Win32 only. sendmail_from = j.bloggs@arts.ac.uk The problem also occurs on Linux running PHP Version 4.3.2 Looking in /var/log/maillog: Sep 1 17:41:57 www-b sendmail[27241]: i81GfvD27241: from=nobody, size=92, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200409011641.i81GfvD27241@www-b.linst.ac.uk>, relay=nobody@localhost Sep 1 17:41:57 www-b sendmail[27244]: i81GfvD27241: to=j.bloggs@arts.ac.uk, ctladdr=nobody (99/99), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30092, relay=mail.linst.ac.uk [195.195.78.11], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK id=1C2YBJ-0002Nd-00) Reproduce code: --------------- $subject = "Joe bloggs edited the Personnel Record of Joe bloggs"; mail("j.bloggs@arts.ac.uk", $subject, "test", ""); Expected result: ---------------- An email is sent with: to/from: j.bloggs@arts.ac.uk subject: 'Joe bloggs edited the Personnel Record of Joe bloggs' body: 'test' Actual result: -------------- No email is sent at all. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=29933&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29933&r=float