Re: [PHP] Mail subject encoding breaks

[Tom Worster]

On 5/11/09 11:58 AM, Thodoris t...@kinetix.gr wrote:

 
 On 11 May 2009 at 18:25, Thodoris wrote:
 
   
 Hi gang,
 I am using phpmailer to send some mail notifications in an intranet
 I've made. This is a sample code:
 
 
   
 $e-Subject = This is δφκξγκδφη garbidge κηδφκξγσ;
 
 
 Hi,
 
 I have had success with this in the past:
 
 $subject  = This is δφκξγκδφη garbidge κηδφκξγσ; 
 $e-Subject = mb_encode_mimeheader($subject, UTF-8, Q) ;
 
 Regards
 
 Ian
   
 
 Thanks Ian this works in most cases but there are times that still
 breaks the subject. I have experimented with:
 
 mb_encode_mimeheader($subject, UTF-8, B)
 
 as well but nothing seems to be working without problems.

is it possible that in the problem cases the subject string isn't valid
utf-8?

you can check with mb_check_encoding($subject)

you can sanitize bad utf-8 with iconv(UTF-8,UTF-8//IGNORE,$subject)
though you probably won't get the string you want with that. when you don't
have other options, this will at least clean up bad encoding.



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[PHP] Mail subject encoding breaks

[Thodoris]

Hi gang,
   I am using phpmailer to send some mail notifications in an intranet 
I've made. This is a sample code:


?php
// Include PHP Mailer
require 'class/class.phpmailer.php';

// Instantiate the mailer
$e = new phpmailer();

$e-From = aco...@host.gr;
$e-FromName = Test;
$e-Mailer = mail;
$e-Subject = This is δφκξγκδφη garbidge κηδφκξγσ;
$e-CharSet = UTF-8;
$e-Body = H εργασία id: 122 έκλεισε με σχόλια.;


$e-AddReplyTo(supp...@kinetix.gr);
$e-AddAddress(t...@kinetix.gr);
// $e-to = array(t...@kinetix.gr);


if ($e-Send()) {
   print Mail has been sent successfully.;
} else {
   print Failed to send mail.br.$e-ErrorInfo;
}
?

Where mailer class is:

?php
require 'class.phpmailer.php';
class mailer extends phpmailer {
   var $From = aco...@host.gr;
   var $FromName = Test;
   var $Mailer   = mail;
   var $WordWrap = 200;
   var $CharSet = UTF-8;
   var $Encoding = quoted-printable;
   // var $Encoding = base64;
}
?

This script seems to work ok in a freebsd development server I have but 
a linux production machine breaks the subject's encoding for some 
unexpected reason. The subject has a mix of English and Greek characters 
that FreeBSD seems to handle like a charm.


Both machines have the same php version (5.2.9) and the scripts encoding 
is UTF-8. Iconv and mbstring are configured the same way in php.ini 
(although I am not aware whether phpmailer uses iconv or mbstring).


Has anyone had a similar experience? Is it possible that sendmail (which 
is the underlying tool) breaks the mail encoding?


Please any help would be appreciated because this is really driving me 
crazy.


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Re: [PHP] Mail subject encoding breaks

[Ian]

On 11 May 2009 at 18:25, Thodoris wrote:

 Hi gang,
 I am using phpmailer to send some mail notifications in an intranet
 I've made. This is a sample code:

 $e-Subject = This is δφκξγκδφη garbidge κηδφκξγσ;

Hi,

I have had success with this in the past:

$subject= This is δφκξγκδφη garbidge κηδφκξγσ;
$e-Subject = mb_encode_mimeheader($subject, UTF-8, Q) ;

Regards

Ian
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Re: [PHP] Mail subject encoding breaks

[Thodoris]

On 11 May 2009 at 18:25, Thodoris wrote:

  

Hi gang,
I am using phpmailer to send some mail notifications in an intranet 
I've made. This is a sample code:



  

$e-Subject = This is δφκξγκδφη garbidge κηδφκξγσ;



Hi,

I have had success with this in the past:

$subject= This is δφκξγκδφη garbidge κηδφκξγσ;  
$e-Subject  = mb_encode_mimeheader($subject, UTF-8, Q) ;

Regards

Ian
  


Thanks Ian this works in most cases but there are times that still 
breaks the subject. I have experimented with:


mb_encode_mimeheader($subject, UTF-8, B)

as well but nothing seems to be working without problems.

I think that this solved my problems since I noticed that it works fine 
until this moment.


function mail_utf8($to, $subject = '(No subject)', $message = '', $header = '') 
{
 $header_ = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . \r\n . 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8' . 
\r\n;
 mail($to, =?UTF-8?B?.base64_encode($subject).'?=', $message, $header_ . 
$header);
}


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