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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Hank Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
