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Ricardo Wagemaker

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Can someone please advise I already looked online and tried everything I can think of my I am only getting plain text email...

Email part is working is only the HTML stuff not I get the $body (message) in raw code rather than html format.

Here is my code:

<?php
 require_once "Mail.php";

$from = "Home Calendar <calendar@home>";
 $to = "Me Yahoo <me@yahoo.co.uk>, Me Gmail <me@gmail.com>";
 $subject = "TESTING PHP EMAIL";
 $body = "
<html>
    <head>
        <title>HTML email</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>This email contains HTML Tags!</p>
    <table>
        <tr>
            <th>Firstname</th>
            <th>Lastname</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Ricardo</td>
            <td>Wagemaker</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    </body>
</html>
";

$host = "ssl://mail.domain.co.uk";
 $port = "465";
 $username = "name@domain.co.uk";
 $password = "password";

$headers = array (
        "MIME-Version: 1.0",
        "Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1",
        'From' => $from,
        'To' => $to,
        'Subject' => $subject
        );

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
   array ('host' => $host,
     'port' => $port,
     'auth' => true,
     'username' => $username,
     'password' => $password));

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body, $from, $subject);

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
   echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
  } else {
   echo("\n\n<p>Message successfully sent!</p>\n\n");
  }
 ?>

Roel De Nijs

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Ricardo Wagemaker wrote:Email part is working is only the HTML stuff not I get the $body (message) in raw code rather than html format.

I use this code to set the required mail headersAlthough it should not make a difference (as headers are normally case insensitive), it might be Content-Type (with upper case T).

Hope it helps!
Kind regards,
Roel

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Ricardo Wagemaker

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Thnk you for your advice Roel De Nijs but it has not worked, I just don't get it as it should all work.

I got it to work with a gmail / tls sample I found online but I do not want to use gmail as i want to use my own mail server using ssl.

Many Thanks I will continue trying :-)

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The host doesn't usually start with "ssl://".

Mail servers usually use SMTP or POP3 or the like. For secure SMTP the protocol is SMTPS (smtp over ssl). The port 465 seems right for smtps.

Since you using Mail.php which may look similar to the PHPMailer class here

Link below may be helpful.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5335273/how-to-send-an-email-using-php

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Ricardo Wagemaker

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K. Tsang wrote:The host doesn't usually start with "ssl://".

Mail servers usually use SMTP or POP3 or the like. For secure SMTP the protocol is SMTPS (smtp over ssl). The port 465 seems right for smtps.

Since you using Mail.php which may look similar to the PHPMailer class here

Link below may be helpful.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5335273/how-to-send-an-email-using-php

Hi K. Tsang,

Sending the email was not the problem and my host does start with ssl as it's (Secure Sockets Layer) configured and that part always worked it was only the HTML format that was not working.

But now all fixed as I modified the $headers and it all works.

FROM:

TO

Looks like the "rn" for new line is required, but don't ask me why it just works now :-)

Roel De Nijs

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Ricardo Wagemaker wrote:Looks like the "rn" for new line is required, but don't ask me why it just works now :-)

Glad to hear you were able to solve your issue.

Thanks for coming back and sharing your solution. That might be (very) helpful for other ranchers

Have a cow!

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