Re: [PHP] Mail function and hotmail

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 12:59 -0400, Fernando G wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am sending an html message with and embedded image using the following code:
> 
> // Read message from html template
> $message = fread("template.html", filesize("template.html"));
> 
> // I replace the values in $message that are necessary to 
> // fill the tempalte
> ...
> 
> // Generate a boundary string
> $rand_value = md5(time());
> $mime_boundary = "-----$rand_value";
> 
> $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
> $headers .= "From: Name <[email protected]>\r\n";
> $headers .= "Reply-To: Name <[email protected]>\r\n";
> $headers .= "Return-Path: [email protected]\r\n";
> $headers .= "Organization: Name\r\n";
> $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP's mail() Function\r\n";
> $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/related; ";
> $headers .= "boundary=\"$mime_boundary\"; type=\"text/html\"\r\n\r\n";
> 
> $body = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
> $body .= "--$mime_boundary\r\n";
> $body .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
> $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\r\n$message\r\n\r\n";
> $body .= "--$mime_boundary\r\n";
> $body .= "Content-Type: image/jpg\r\n";
> $body .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
> $body .= "Content-ID: <ggtourslogo>\r\n\r\n";
> $body .= chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents("./templates/emaillogo.jpg")));
> $body .= "--$mime_boundary--";
> 
> return mail("[email protected]", "Subject", $body, $headers);
> 
> However when it is send to a hotmail.com address the message is received blank.  It does work fine with Gmail, Yahoo mail, Outlook Express and Thunderbird.
> 
> Your help is much appreciated.
> 
> Fernando
> 
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As far as I'm aware, Hotmail blocks all images by default. Also, I've
seen Outlook choke on message with the \r\n line endings, could Hotmail
be doing that too?

Thanks
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk