[FX.php List] How to send HTML emails in PHP

Thu Jan 24 13:25:25 MST 2008

Indeed, you should make the effort to send a so called multipart  
plain and html e-mail to be kind to the recipient :)

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24 jan 2008 kl. 21.20 skrev Jonathan Schwartz:

> Bob,
>
> The default seems to have been PHPMailer in the past.  Although I  
> am going to look at Swift as well.
>
> The thing to remember is that email must be formatted properly.   
> Otherwise, it is subject to the whims of email filters.  Also, when  
> sending html mail, it is customary to also send a text version at  
> the same time.  The email client at the recipient end makes the  
> decsion which to display.
>
> HTH,
>
> J
>
> J
>
> At 2:03 PM -0600 1/24/08, Bob Patin wrote:
>> I've got a client for whom I send automated emails from their  
>> website; they're asking if I can add their logo to the email. I  
>> use something called "sock_mail" which was given to me by a  
>> consultant, and it's plain-text.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to send an HTML email from PHP? I tried  
>> taking some HTML and putting it into an email body, but the  
>> message comes back as HTML code rather than what it's supposed to  
>> look like when displayed in an HTML email message.
>>
>> Instead of pretty HTML, I received this:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"  
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http- 
>> equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" / 
>> ><title>Untitled Document</title></head><body><img src="http:// 
>> www.client.com/images/logo.jpg" width="376" height="55" /></body></ 
>> html>
>>
>> Any help would be mucho appreciated.
>>
>> Bob Patin
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