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

Thu Jan 24 17:33:55 MST 2008

This line appears above the logo, which should be the first thing in  
the email:

Message-Id: <20080124230714.ED37E1D9A64 at localhost> Date: Thu, 24 Jan  
2008 17:07:14 -0600 (CST)

Any thoughts? It looks like it's created by the mail client; I don't  
see it in Mac Mail, but it does appear in Entourage, and in Outlook  
Express on the PC.

BP

On Jan 24, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> Which line?
>
> 2008/1/25, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com>:
>> These are all emails that are sent from a site that they embed in
>> their company sites, so they'll recognize them as not being spam.
>> They're all sales leads.
>>
>> Client wants it, I gotta supply it... :)
>>
>> I just wish I knew how to keep that one line from showing...
>>
>> Other than that, the emails look fine.
>>
>> BP
>>
>>
>>
>>> Well for many HTML is per definition spam.
>>>
>>> ggt
>>>
>>> 2008/1/24, VanBuskirk, Patricia <pvanbuskirk at otc.fsu.edu>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I recently went through a nightmare with this same situation … as
>>>> some email
>>>> clients are not as forgiving with the code as others!  phpMailer is
>>>> what I
>>>> used that ended up working.  I'll try to attach it, but not sure if
>>>> the list
>>>> accepts attachments.  Also, read some rules at
>>>> http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2007/02/the-new-rules-for-html-email/
>>>> and http://www.anandgraves.com/html-email-guide .. there
>>>> are many if you do a Google search for "html email".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
>>>> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> Leo R. Lundgren
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:07 PM
>>>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>>>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] How to send HTML emails in PHP
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Haven't actually done html mails myself yet, but check out
>>>> SwiftMailer.org.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -|
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 24 jan 2008 kl. 21.03 skrev Bob Patin:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Longterm Solutions
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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