Re: Explanation marks in mail sent w/ php

The places where the exlpanation mark appears is the places where your mailer encounters a line that is to big to handle. The RFC states (if I remember correctly) that the max linesize is something of 72 chars. (ever wondered why uuencode stops at 60 chars? the length for base64 is in the whereabouts, or why Netscape mailer suggets line wrap at 72 chars? :-) ) Although most(all?) modern MTA's (sendmail, postfix, qmail, etc.) can handle at least 8k (aka 8192) chars per line, you shouldn't count on that. PHP has a function (I don't remember which) that sizes your lines to the requested length. -Stathis. eric wrote: > > hello, > > I'm using the following scheme to create html mails. The messages are > sent mime multipart mixed, and everything seems to be working. However, > lines are randomly cut within the mail html message body and > explaination marks !!! are inserted. This disrupts the html tags, and > the html mail doesn't format right. I'm sending an example to the list > with the same subject as this message now. any help appreciated. > > i know there are php classes to do these things, but would prefer to fix > this. > > > $fcontents_html=join('',file("http://photo.mediachex.com/s_main/msg_content/header.html")); > > > $fcontents_html.=join('',file("http://photo.mediachex..com/s_main/msg_content/body.html")); > > > $fcontents_html.=join('',file("http://photo.mediachex.com/s_main/msg_content/footer.html")); > > mail($to, $subject, $fcontents_html, $header); > > many thx. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net