Re: fixing mail for broken Outlook

basically tabs and line breaks disappear ... almost like it's treating the message as html .. whitespace is history. On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 04:29:03PM -0000, DL Neil wrote: > 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? > > -- > > Hank Marquardt <hank@yerpso.net> > > http://web.yerpso.net > > GPG Id: 2BB5E60C > > Fingerprint: D807 61BC FD18 370A AC1D 3EDF 2BF9 8A2D 2BB5 E60C > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > 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 > -- Hank Marquardt <hank@yerpso.net> http://web.yerpso.net GPG Id: 2BB5E60C Fingerprint: D807 61BC FD18 370A AC1D 3EDF 2BF9 8A2D 2BB5 E60C *** Web Development: PHP, MySQL/PgSQL - Network Admin: Debian/FreeBSD *** PHP Instructor - Intnl. Webmasters Assn./HTML Writers Guild *** Beginning PHP -- Starts January 7, 2002 *** See http://www.hwg.org/services/classes