Re: mail function trouble

> I am trying to get the php mail function to work as i want, my problem > is that i need to separate some text with tabs but outlook seems to > ignore my tabs (\t) in the body. What can the problem be? do i need to > send a special content type? > > I tried the example on the manual, it's the same, no tabs only one > space. There is little PHP can do to fix Outlook to actually honor the tab character, especially since the end-user can choose a proporational font where the tabs you are trying to use won't line stuff up anyway... \t is the tab character. If Outlook chooses to not represent that the way you want, PHP ain't gonna be able to fix it. You could consider sending HTML-enhanced email, and using <PRE> or <TT> so that the ASCII text will be a mono-spaced font, and maybe then Outlook would do the right thing. You want to be careful though -- savvy users just trash any HTML-enhanced email for security reasons.