Re: correct email formatting

Yup, \r is on the Mac. But hey, I read somewhere that it's a little more compatible if you put \n\r in the email() function. So that's what I do, I have found no adverse affects on Mac or PC. On 9/27/00 11:47 PM this was written: >> I'm on a FreeBSD box both for local development >> and for live pages. >> >> Does splitting on \n\r seem likely? >> >> Sorry, got no clue when it comes to linefeed, >> new lines, carrige returns, ASCI, and all that :) > > Dear oh dear, what _are_ they teaching the young these days ;-( > >> I know I could simply test it, but I was after >> something more reliable than "it works for this >> email sender, on this server, today" kinda thing. >> >> Justin French > > FreeBSD is *nix so your separator between header and body should be > allee same like mine, \n\n. But I'd suggest you test for all possible > configurations and convert them to a single format, just to be on the safe > side. Your possiblities are: > > *nix - \n\n > DOS - \r\n\r\n > Mac - \r\r (I think, check this out seeing you are using a PPC) > > so you'd want to change say > any \r\n to \n > Any \r to \n > > and then search for \n\n as the separator. That should work on most > anything except something that uses another EOL combination :-) -- Thomas Deliduka IT Manager ------------------------- New Eve Media The Solution To Your Internet Angst http://www.neweve.com/