PHPMailer Not Sending Emails - Am I missing something simple? - php

Question

I am using PHPMailer to send HTML emails. I first set the HTML body of the email using HTML and PHP variables after first calling ob_start.
Here's my code:
<?php
ob_start();
?>
..... a bunch of VALID HTML
<?
$body = ob_get_contents();
require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
// Send to Me
$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch
$mail->IsSendmail(); // telling the class to use SendMail transport
try {
$mail->AddReplyTo('info#example.com', 'Company Name');
$mail->AddAddress('me#example.com', 'My Name');
$mail->SetFrom('info#example.com', 'Company Name');
$mail->Subject = "Contact Form Confirmation";
$mail->AltBody = "This is a contact form submitted through the main website.";
$mail->WordWrap = 50; // set word wrap
$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
$mail->Send(); // Try to send email
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
echo $e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!
}
// end try
For some reason, this line:
$mail->Body = $body;
causes the email not to send. If I replace it with:
$mail->Body = "This is a test email.";
the email sends perfectly.
If my HTML contained within $body is just a valid HTML page with CSS in the head, and no Javascript or anything, why won't the email send?
Is there another way to do this? Please help!!

Answer 1

Turns out, for some reason, the emails were not sending if they contained a fax number. Totally strange. I tested my entire markup, and after ONLY removing a 10 digit phone number, the emails finally went through. I'm not a newbie - literally that's the only text I removed and the emails sent fine.
HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS BEFORE??