RE: [PHP] HTML email with Outlook

By the context, I'm sure it should read "...not all email clients support HTML." (I got a laugh out of it though ;) -----Original Message----- From: Johnny Martinez [mailto:jmartinez@citrusglobal.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 7:21 PM To: 'Curt Zirzow'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] HTML email with Outlook "Remember not all email clients support email." Did I read that right or is it a typo? J -----Original Message----- From: Curt Zirzow [mailto:curt@zirzow.dyndns.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 4:17 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] HTML email with Outlook Tim Thorburn <immortal@nwconx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I've made a PHP script that sends out an automatic email through my servers > cron system, it works well, but I thought I'd try to do some HTML > email to > get things to line up a little better. > > To do so, I added the following line in my mail() command: -Type: > text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 > When I check the messages sent out with Eudora, the HTML email comes in > perfectly. However, when I check with Outlook Express 6 - I get the actual > HTML code rather than the nicely formatted email that I had created. > > Should I be using another line in my mail() command? I've recieved > HTML > email before with Outlook Express on my machine without changing any > settings at all. Also, I had sent an email from my script to hotmail and > the HTML email worked fine there too. there are different ways to send html in an email and also very wrong ways to send html in an email; very debatable topic from what I've seen. I think your best bet is to use something like: http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ You can send both plain/text and html. Remember not all email clients support email. And a lot of people dont like it at all. Of course if this is only for you to see I guess you can ignore all that i said :) Curt -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php