#31496 [Bgs]: body output of mail() adds eroneous characters breaking output

ID: 31496 User updated by: cessner at centrosus dot com Reported By: cessner at centrosus dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Mail related Operating System: Fedora Core PHP Version: 4CVS, 5CVS (2005-01-18) New Comment: What environment did you test it in? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-02-17 02:44:43] sniper@php.net It's something wrong with your system, this works just fine for me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-20 01:43:22] cessner at centrosus dot com Well can someone else test it? The code is in the link on this bug page. That would be a good place to start. -Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-20 01:10:53] hholzgra@php.net Are you sure that this happens in PHP already and not within your mail transport agent? All that mail() does on UNIX is to pipe the message headers and body into the local sendmail binary, most issues with mangled email headers and content happen *after* PHP has already passed it on to the MTA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-12 19:38:37] cessner at centrosus dot com I think I found the problem. There seems to be a limit for the message body in html and potentially text output as well at 2040 characters for mail(). I ran a few tests using different forms and different input and the "!" is added always as the 2041st character. -Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-01-12 01:31:31] cessner at centrosus dot com Here is the code: http://www.centrosus.com/mail/code.html You may enter your email address here and have the html result sent to your email and check the source yourself when you receive the email. http://www.centrosus.com/mail/enter_email.html -Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 http://bugs.php.net/31496 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=31496&edit=1