Re: fixing mail for broken Outlook

Hank, > basically tabs and line breaks disappear ... almost like it's treating > the message as html .. whitespace is history. =I haven't gone back to the RFC to see what the rules about tabs are - but then when does M$ follow 'the rules' (Outlook). =are you using a *nix box? There is a difference between *nix, Windows, and Mac with line ends being represented by LF, CRLF, or CR. =Regards, =dn > 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 >