Re: fixing mail for broken Outlook
| From: | DL Neil | Date: | Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:29:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: fixing mail for broken Outlook | ||
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Hank,
You say "just text" and "text/plain".
What do you mean by "mungs the formatting"? What formatting in plain text?
=dn
> I've got an app that sends emails, not complicated emails, their just
> text, the mail text is stored in text files on the server so they can be
> edited independant of the code, I've then got a function that reads the
> file (using file()) ... iterates the array, chop(), append \r\n and
> builds a message.
>
> This text gets sent using mail() -- works great for everything but
> Outlook which seems to lose all the line breaks and generally mungs the
> formatting to heck. I've tried sending a "Content-type: text/plain;"
> header ... doesn't help.
>
> The only thing that keeps me from losing my mind is that I accidently
> had the wrong header "Content-type: text/text;" at first and while it
> created an attachment in Outlook, the attachemnt was properly formatted.
>
> Anyone else have this problem and solved it?
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