Doc #54012 [Com]: Line separators in additional_header parameter

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54012&edit=1 ID: 54012 Comment by: ere at labs dot fi Reported by: karl dot riedling at tuwien dot ac dot at Summary: Line separators in additional_header parameter Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: Mail related Operating System: Debian Lenny PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This is causing trouble with Hotmail.com too. It seems to me that the documentation error is based on a misunderstanding. It is true that \r\n is used in the email, but it is the duty of the MTA to construct the message properly. When PHP talks to the MTA, platform native line separators should be used as that is communication between two tasks on the same platform, and the MTA (logically) expects to receive input with proper line separators. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-14 14:05:40] karl dot riedling at tuwien dot ac dot at Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.mail#Parameters --- Experienced in three different PHP installations under Debian Lenny (PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny9) and Red Hat 3.4.5-2 (PHP/5.0.4): Using \r\n as line separators in the additional-header parameter, as required in the documentation (_any_ version I found) causes severe problems with some mail clients. Apparently, either mail() or the MTA adds an additional CR, which is no problem with most mail clients but effectively results in extraneous linefeeds if the mail is received by GMX. These extraneous linefeeds preempt the mail header section and move everything but the first header line into the mail body. Accordingly, the MIME headers are not properly interpreted. This problem has been reported, incidentally, in several forum postings, with hardly a good solution found there. I replaced "\r\n" in my software with PHP_EOL; the pertinent section reads now: $this->header = "From: ".$from; if ($reply_to != "") $this->header .= PHP_EOL."Reply-to: ".$reply_to; $this->header .= PHP_EOL."X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion(); $this->header .= PHP_EOL."MIME-Version: 1.0"; ... Test script: --------------- Simply send a mail with "\r\n" in the additional_headers and with several lines in the header section from a Linux environment to a gmx mail account. Replace "\r\n" with PHP_EOL (which is "\n" under Linux), and note the difference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54012&edit=1