Doc #63416 [Com]: WRONG STATEMENTS IN MAIL FUNCTION DOCS

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63416&edit=1 ID: 63416 Comment by: niel dot archer at gmail dot com Reported by: jakopino at gmail dot com Summary: WRONG STATEMENTS IN MAIL FUNCTION DOCS Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: *Mail Related Operating System: Any PHP Version: 5.3.18 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: PHP does not change SMTP behaviour, it complies with it. See section 2.1 of RFC2822 which states: "Messages are divided into lines of characters. A line is a series of characters that is delimited with the two characters, carriage-return and line-feed; that is, the carriage return (CR) character (ASCII value 13) followed immediately by the line feed (LF) character (ASCII value 10)." The CRLF combination in the examples tells the mail agent that those lines are ended. It is quite legitimate to have LF characters within a line before its end, example one does this with the $message variable. Mail should *never* use PHP_EOL as it would break the SMTP standard. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-11-02 01:01:08] jakopino at gmail dot com Some poor quality Unix mail transfer agents replace LF by CRLF automatically (which leads to doubling CR if CRLF is used). This should be a last resort, as it does not comply with » RFC 2822. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-11-02 00:57:58] jakopino at gmail dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.mail#refsect1-function.mail-seealso --- PHP cannot change SMTP behavior. Newlines must be issued using the correct sequence, this sequence must be platform independent, that's why we have the PHP_EOL constant. It's well documented by a 7 year old thread ( https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15841 ). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The mail function docs page is full of examples, all of them are using the windows newline sequence, without mentioning the real problem. Please correct that page -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Jakopec Macro Web Media PS Paralles Plesk Pannel 11 is using Qmail as default smtp server... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63416&edit=1