#13044 [Com]: unexpected characters in mail

ID: 13044 Comment by: wehaveagig at hotmail dot com Reported By: michalprv at poland dot com Status: No Feedback Bug Type: Mail related Operating System: linux PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: I'm a web developer and I've been experiencing a very similar problem. Infact, it almost identical to the problem reported in Bug #31496 (I would have added my comment there, but I couldn't do so because it was listed as "Bogus"). But in my case, the problem is INTERMITTENT, where the garbage exclamation point character ! will appear in different places in a given message. (If it occurs at all). Sometimes the messages will be prefectly fine. Other times, I'll get an exclamation point somewhere in the body of the message. And other times, there will be several exclamation points in a given message. I strongly suspected the Zend Optimizer causing these bugs, as it tries to look ahead, it may be invoking the mail/sendmail program inproperly or before the message has finished being fully formed. Please respond with any opinions on that theory. Thanks Steve Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-04-19 00:00:06] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-03-18 11:03:46] mfischer@php.net I'ld suggest to try with a newer PHP version anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-03-18 10:57:24] derick@php.net Works fine for me... what mail program do you use? Derick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-03-18 10:50:15] beteulgeuseNOSPAM at hotmail dot com hello, got this bug on linux debian 2.2.17 potato php 4.0.1pl2 more info about the number of characters. 990 characters is fine, 991 is bad, and "!\n" appears on the 990 position. good luck :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-29 16:12:09] michalprv at poland dot com $sql = "Long line: 123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890123456789012345678901234568901234567890"; mail($address, $subject, $sql); In this case the mail function isn't working properly. When the string line ist too long, unexpected characters are inserted (this is "!/n") ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=13044&edit=1