Re: Probs with MIME multipart/alternative generated with PEAR mime.php (bug)

Thanks to a heads up fom Malcolm Dew-Jones on the comp.mail.mime newsgroup, I belive a bug and resolution has been located in mime.php that addresses the problem I raised below. It would seem that certain MTA's are chocking on the line "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_f74fc4c7192d1983b9f144709175f8eb"" of the header (to long for 7bit encoding?), and trunicating boundary="=_f74fc4c7192d1983b9f144709175f8eb" so that it sits on the line below. This results in corrupted headers. To resolve this issue, mime.php should place the "boundry" on the second line, preceeded with a tab. Altough I have not had a chance to test this fix with my clients who have complained of this issue, my rudimentry research shows this to be the case. Regards, Michael "Mike" <dialectics-unlimited@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:20020603145946.62672.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi, > > I just don't know enough about MIME encoded email to figure this problem > out. I'm using a PHP script (mime.php from the Pear library) to automate > the sending of an HTML newsletter to my subscribers. The email the script > dishes out has mixed results. Some of my users have the email rendered fine > in there client, others receive a corrupted email with the headers bleading > into the body. > > To further complicate the matter, this is not an issue related to a > particular email client, as users using identical clients on identical > platforms have either had proper results or not. My hunch is that the > problem originates from either my MTA, or the script itself. But, I just > don't know enough about MIME multipart/alternative to diagnos the problem. > > A raw version of the email is below. > > Any MIME gurus out there? > > Thanks, > > mike > > > > From nobody@flag.blackened.net Mon Jun 3 05:27:54 2002 > Return-Path: <nobody@flag.blackened.net> > Delivered-To: ise@flag.blackened.net > Received: by flag.blackened.net (Postfix, from userid 65534) > id 1E5B26702; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 05:27:54 -0700 (PDT) > To: ise@flag.blackened.net > Subject: ise-news 018 :: June 2002 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > From: ise-news@social-ecology.org > Status: > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="=_f74fc4c7192d1983b9f144709175f8eb" > Message-Id: <20020603122754.1E5B26702@flag.blackened.net> > Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 05:27:54 -0700 (PDT) > > > --=_f74fc4c7192d1983b9f144709175f8eb > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Your email client is unable to display this issue of ise-news. Most likely > this is because your email client cannot read HTML. To change your ise-news > subscription to the text version, go to: > > http://www.social-ecology.org/ise-news/change.php?id=d963dfb04befe0df8673367 > 050c9ad8d > > To unsubscribe, go to: > http://www.social-ecology.org/ise-news/unsubscribe.php?id=d963dfb04befe0df86 > 73367050c9ad8d > > > --=_f74fc4c7192d1983b9f144709175f8eb > Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <HTML> > <!-- > > Your email client can not read HTML. To change your ise-news subscription= > =20 > to the text version, go to: > > http://www.social-ecology.org/ise-news/change.php?id=3Dd963dfb04befe0df8673= > 367050c9ad8d > > To unsubscribe, go to: http://www.social-ecology.org/ise-news/unsubscribe.p= > hp?id=3Dd963dfb04befe0df8673367050c9ad8d > > Don't worry about anything else below this paragraph. > It's for those with HTML enabled e-mail clients. > > --> > <HEAD> > <TITLE>ise-news June 2002</TITLE> > <META http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859= > -1"> > </HEAD> > > <BODY bgcolor=3D"#CCCC99" text=3D"#000000" link=3D"#663300" vlink=3D"#66330= > 0" alink=3D"#663300" leftmargin=3D"0" topmargin=3D"0" > marginwidth=3D"0" mar= > ginheight=3D"0"> > <BR><A name=3D"top"></A> > > <!-- Body removed for symplicity sake --> > > > </BODY> > </HTML> > --=_f74fc4c7192d1983b9f144709175f8eb-- > > > > > > >