Remove headers from Email Body - php

I am having trouble with email synchronization application, i am developing an conversation module for my project so i had extracted email body and attachments from the Email Account but problem is i also got some header text in email body like
"--PHP-alt-9ce0b24f8d52c4d37de61cb315107795d140f8b7 Content-Type: text/plain --PHP-alt-9ce0b24f8d52c4d37de61cb315107795d140f8b7 "
and i want to remove it
actual output is
--PHP-alt-9ce0b24f8d52c4d37de61cb315107795d140f8b7 Content-Type: text/plain --PHP-alt-9ce0b24f8d52c4d37de61cb315107795d140f8b7 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="PHP-related-9ce0b24f8d52c4d37de61cb315107795d140f8b7" --PHP-related-9ce0b24f8d52c4d37de61cb315107795d140f8b7 Content-Type: text/html Dear Milind
Thank you for choosing XXXXX for your limo hire.
Please accept this e-mail as confirmation the following booking has been
confirmed and requires you to print, sign and return the attached
contract with us, either by e-mail, fax or post, within 3 days.
To view contract for booking please click here
We would like to draw your attention to our agreed Terms and
Conditions concerning the booking and ask that you ensure you comply,
which can be found on our website www.xxxxx.co.uk
If this has been received in error, please contact our Office
immediately on XXXXXXX or XXXXXX.
Regards
Company name
TEL:
and i want something like
Dear Milind
Thank you for choosing XXXXX for your limo hire.
Please accept this e-mail as confirmation the following booking has been
confirmed and requires you to print, sign and return the attached
contract with us, either by e-mail, fax or post, within 3 days.
To view contract for booking please click here
We would like to draw your attention to our agreed Terms and
Conditions concerning the booking and ask that you ensure you comply,
which can be found on our website www.xxxxx.co.uk
If this has been received in error, please contact our Office
immediately on XXXXXXX or XXXXXX.
Regards
Company name
TEL:
i have tried substr() but its not that helpful
any regular expression may be?
here is code for email sending
lets assume body string = $email_message where all email format is written in "string"
PS: please note that some emails contains attachments
$subject = 'A sample email - Dual Format plus attachment plus inline';
// Create a boundary string. It needs to be unique (not in the text) so ...
// We are going to use the sha1 algorithm to generate a 40 character string:
$sep = sha1(date('r', time()));
// Define the headers we want passed.
$headers = "From: StarLimosine <sender#gmail.com> \r\n X-Mailer: Custom PHP Script";
//$headers.="\r\nCc:sender#gmail.com";
$headers.="\r\nBcc:sender#gmail.com , sender#gmail.in";
// Add in our primary content boundary, and mime type specification:
$headers .=
"\r\nContent-Type: text/html; boundary=\"PHP-mixed-{$sep}\"";
// Prepare our attachment file - Read it in, encode it and split it
//$attached = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('attachment.zip')));
// Also now prepare our inline image - Also read, encode, split:
$inline = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('images/Logo.png')));
// Now the body of the message.
$body =<<<EOBODY
--PHP-mixed-{$sep}
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="PHP-alt-{$sep}"
--PHP-alt-{$sep}
Content-Type: text/plain
--PHP-alt-{$sep}
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="PHP-related-{$sep}"
--PHP-related-{$sep}
Content-Type: text/html
$email_message
<strong>
Star Limousines<br/>
TEL: 0800 9 556 556 <br/>
or 01435 813494</strong><br/>
<span style="font-size:10px">Registerd Office Pick Hill Farm, Horam East Sussex TN21 0JR</span>
--PHP-mixed-{$sep}--
EOBODY;
$body=$email_message;
mail($to,$subject,$body);

At any point of time, the headers are in the first two lines right? If that's the case, you can go with this:
substr($email, strpos($email, PHP_EOL, strpos($email, PHP_EOL) + 1));

add this only when you POST data when using GET remove this.
$headers .=
"\r\nContent-Type: text/html; boundary=\"PHP-mixed-{$sep}\"";
you will get response without headers

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Gmail displaying plain text instead of HTML

Situation
I have a script that is downloading emails from a Gmail account, tweaking the content, and re-sending out the emails.
Problem
Whenever I create an email with an embedded image, Gmail displays the plain text version of the email and the embedded image appears like a regular attachment.
Tested
If I use a different client, the image displays properly. If I forward the email from Gmail to a different client, the image displays properly. Multi-part emails that have regular attachments, or that have both plain text and html parts display properly - as long as they don't have an embedded image.
Email format
From what I can see, the format of the email is correct, but I've pasted it below, trimmed for brevity & privacy. The 2 things I notice is that the boundary appears to be properly set, and the img src cid: matches the Content-ID of the image.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related;
boundary="_=_swift_1575407655_756d311b6808cc9e07d75ccca0ed9b6c_=_"
--_=_swift_1575407655_756d311b6808cc9e07d75ccca0ed9b6c_=_
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This email has been sent to a Mailing List. You can approve or reject it a=
t [URL here]
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
[image: noice.gif]
-----------------------
[Signature here]
--_=_swift_1575407655_756d311b6808cc9e07d75ccca0ed9b6c_=_
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<p>
This email has been sent to a Mailing List. You can approve or reject =
it at [URL here]</p>
<hr />
<div dir=3D"ltr"><div><img src=3D"cid:7f82a31e4f084e8f0a25edd913ed3aa2#swif=
t.generated" alt=3D"noice.gif" width=3D"474" height=3D"244"><br></div><div>=
<div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signature" data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signatur=
e"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><br><br>---=
--------------------<br>[signature here]<br></div>=
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
--_=_swift_1575407655_756d311b6808cc9e07d75ccca0ed9b6c_=_
Content-Type: image/gif; name=noice.gif
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: <7f82a31e4f084e8f0a25edd913ed3aa2#swift.generated>
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=noice.gif
R0lGODlh2gH0APcAAAgDBRGJG5ZKGsDGB8lNFJJsGkkIBs+nLgnCM4lPZODnDqdMGo4rCVGIKs5q
[... bunch of base64 encoded stuff]
BFGgAUsAEvjkAlQgq/drOjfkFKdEETNBxl3bpi5lBYEAADs=
--_=_swift_1575407655_756d311b6808cc9e07d75ccca0ed9b6c_=_--
PHP code
Here is the PHP code that generates the Mailer object - which is a wrapper around Swiftmailer, and is used to do the actual sending:
$Mailer = new Mailer($subject_prepend.$this->subject);
// Simply a wrapper. Calls $this->Message->setBody($body,'text/plain');,
// where $this->Message is an instance of Swift_Message
$Mailer->setBody($plaintext_prepend.$this->plaintext);
$html_body = $html_prepend.$this->html;
if(count($this->Attachments)){
foreach($this->Attachments as $Attachment){
if($Attachment->isEmbedded()){
$image = \Swift_Image::fromPath($Attachment->getPath())->setDisposition('inline');
$cid = $Mailer->Message->embed($image);
//$cid = $Mailer->embedPath($Attachment->getPath());
$html_body = str_replace('cid:'.$Attachment->cid, $cid, $html_body);
}
else{
// calls $this->Message->attach(\Swift_Attachment::fromPath($path));
$Mailer->addAttachmentPath($Attachment->getPath());
}
}
}
// calls $this->Message->addPart($body,'text/html');
$Mailer->addHTMLBody($html_body);
The commented out line is how I was originally embedding the image, but it had the same result.
-
Is this some Gmail magic that's failing me, or is the email misconfigured somehow?
Edit
I managed to get the email sending properly with PHPMailer. The only difference I can see is that PHPMailer starts with:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="b1_6hukH7nTGJu6fpr5tpXob5uQE7wXivW0oMppPNbwOi4"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
where Swiftmailer starts with
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="_=_swift_1575416351_99d22ee774049152f712bc5ae65340fb_=_"
ie: PHPMailer uses multipart/alternative rather than multipart/related, and sets Content-Transfer-Encoding.
Also, all textual parts of SwiftMailer's email was `Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable' whereas PHPMailer didn't set that header.

PHPMailer - forward email to group

I have a need for everyone in my organization to send emails to everyone else in the group.
As there are hundreds of members, and the membership changes often, it is not practical to use the traditional CPanel email forwarding method. So I thought I would pipe the email to a php script, get all the members’ email addresses from the database (checking to make sure the original sender was also in the database) and send on the email to all members using PHPMailer.
I parsed the header in the PHP script to get the From, Subject (adding these of course to PHPMailer), Content-Type, and boundary. Then I collected the actual email message in a variable $message including the lines that say (in this case)
“This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------3D4FAACFC2C069EFCDAE6DC6, etc. (This is of course in text format.)
Just before the PHPMailer Send command, I included:
$mail -> IsHTML(false);
// (I also tried not including this command at all – no change)
$mail->Body =$message;
$mail->addCustomHeader("Content-Type", $content_type . " boundary=" . $boundary);
$content_type and $boundary are the variables I parsed from the original header
As this is still in development, I sent the email to my address only. It was received and displayed properly (both the plain and html as usual), but was marked as Spam – the received Header had the Subject already marked as Spam so I assume PHPMailer did it.
I noticed on the received Header that my custom header appeared correctly:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------3D4FAACFC2C069EFCDAE6DC6"
The received header also had another Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 after the above which I assume PHPMailer added. Maybe the two Content-Types is what triggered the Spam tag. I then tried adding $mail->header_remove ('Content-Type'); after the Body call and before addCustomHeader, but the additional Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 was still in the received header and it was still marked as Spam.
I am using PHPMailer version 5.2.22, and using
$mail->IsSMTP();
, $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
I can’t continue to unsuccessfully experiment forever as I am afraid sending lots of Spam emails will get me in trouble, so I am hoping someone can tell what I am doing wrong, or even if my overall strategy is flawed. I wish also there was a way to get the header that PHPMailer is going to use before it actually sends out the mail.
Note: my organization is a charitable group with little money, so we can't afford paid SMTP's. I've tried using the free versions of some on the market (not for the above project) but given you are using a shared IP with many others using the free service you often get emails kicked back because others sharing your IP have been Spam tagged
Thanks
This is the entire header (I deleted some of the content just to keep this note a bit brief) that I received to my personal email (b...#....com) from my "forward email" script which uses everybody#....org as the originating address. You can see the Content_Type I added to PHPMailer via $mail->addCustomHeader("Content-Type", $content_type . " boundary=" . $boundary);(which is the multipart.. line) and the one PHPMailer itself added (text/plain...). The email was received fine and displayed properly except for the Spam added to the Subject line:
From - Sat Mar 25 12:51:13 2017
STUFF
Return-Path: <everybody#....org>
Received: from dnvrco-pub-iedge-vip.email.rr.com ([107.14.70.244])
by dnvrco-fep06.email.rr.com
(InterMail vM.8.04.03.24 201-2389-100-172-20151028) with ESMTP
id <20170325165112.EUNA23395.dnvrco-fep06.email.rr.com#dnvrco-pub-iedge-vip.email.rr.com>
for <bmadder#...>; Sat, 25 Mar 2017 16:51:12 +0000
Return-Path: <everybody#....org>
Received: from [173.205.126.142] ...
Received: from ecbiz194.inmotionhosting.com .....
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:51:01 -0400
To: b...#....com
From: everybody#....org
Message-ID: ...
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------3D4FAACFC2C069EFCDAE6DC6"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0
X-AntiAbuse:...
X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: ecbiz194.inmotionhosting.com: authenticated_id: everybody#....org
X-Authenticated-Sender: ecbiz194.inmotionhosting.com: everybody#....org
X-Source:
X-Source-Args:
X-Source-Dir:
X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=Od5ldUnY c=1 sm=1 tr=0 p=tHMjoff1TzQA:10 a=BPsZ5WN3F+ptBTNoNLYonA==:117 a=L9H7d07YOLsA:10 a=9cW_t1CCXrUA:10 a=s5jvgZ67dGcA:10 a=9+rZDBEiDlHhcck0kWbJtElFXBc=:19 a=6Iz7jQTuP9IA:10 a=FqPqrT7mAAAA:8 a=wuaQj91YKeLcW_I7NZUA:9 a=FtJ_xtNkBE-qfxEx:21 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=yozH4VhRfl4A:10 a=M3AHoUkWFckA:10 a=fZGknuNN1LOydenUCIb6:22
X-Cloudmark-Score: 100
X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.106:25
Subject: SPAM: Lots of work today
X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAARZYL6Q=
X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFtrDqMTGxcIABLocC65FGFx/aGGx78B3FgdGj+Mv3jMFMEZx+OWXKAQXJOYmcGT07L7AVsBQAaIaGBlWMSqUlBYbF2cUJxYVF6RWGJjrpacW6xVX5ibmlaQm6yXn525ihJq+g3H7RZlTjJJS4ry3512LEBIoBpqYUQpUVxRfVJqTWvyKUZyDUUmYNxcky5OZV1KcmQ6TkeBgUhLhNdl4JUKIt7gkESEl1cDY81CZ25t3k/zUd21bd90/typmy6NtErw+Xs/YlXtk7atb4j4+/t6yoHDeJ3uN/kP1P7LrIiY5fFipZfynvvPJzbNfz943kPtyweqk3Tn/vpOfGIosVIpPxHht7j+Rl24XEH2vJa1o/q3fJRonvyxi6D4x60xlW8M/o0oLBlvjw4672ZjKQg2UWIozEg21mIuKEwGcu2V6TwEAAA==
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------3D4FAACFC2C069EFCDAE6DC6
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This is the text message
--------------3D4FAACFC2C069EFCDAE6DC6
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<p>This is the text message <br>
</p>
</body>
</html>
--------------3D4FAACFC2C069EFCDAE6DC6--
I now have the solution. Rather than using the line of $mail->addCustomHeader("Content-Type", $content_type . " boundary=" . $boundary);, I appended the variable $boundary to the variable $content_type and used $mail->ContentType = $content_type; My mail forward script now works perfectly with the Spam label no longer an issue. The header that is sent to the final recipients no longer has duplicate Content-Types listed in the MIME part

Email header with custom CC in format: "Name <email>" in php

Question:
How do I get an email header to have a CC with the format: "name <email>"? (I have not found much to help with this when its not the TO or FROM address)
Summary of Issue:
An email CC field in the format: "name lastname " produces a header like: "name#emaildomain; lastname#emaildomain; email#emaildomain;" rather then the expected format.
Generating the header
The cc field is populated on a php form with fields for Subject, To, CC, and Body text POSTS to an email handling class. Inside the handler class, the From, BCC, and CC field are written into a header string using an addHeader() method.
function addHeader($type,$value)
{
$this->header .= $type.":".$value.$this->eol;//eol = PHP_EOL
}
When the mail is actually sent it uses a send() method (that I sadly dont feel comfortable detailing too extensively) but the essential point is that it creates the full header string that looks much like this:
From: Company Name CC:Long Last Name, First Name <longlastname#company.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="==Multipart_Boundary_xb964d9146ea853337b28e6b471a8ca00x"
Which is added to a php mail():
$result = mail($this->to, $this->Subject , $this->Body, $this->header);
What I have tried:
I have tried MIME encoding the header but it doesn't seem to help.
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Company=20Name?= Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Long=20Last=20Name,=20First=20Name?= <longlastname#company.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="==Multipart_Boundary_x4cfee11b9185861f4ba890079305ecb0x"
I also tried replacing the white space characters with alternatives like &nbsp or (space) but it did not solve the issue either.

=?UTF-8?B??= in Emails sent via php mail problem

I have a website, and in the "Contact" section I have a form which users may fill in to contact me.
The form is a simple form which action is a php page.
The php code:
$to = "email#domain.com";
$name=$_POST['name']; // sender name
$email=$_POST['email']; // sender email
$tel= $_POST['tel']; // sender tel
$subject=$_POST['subject']; // subject CHOSEN FROM DROPLIST, ALL TESTED
$text=$_POST['text']; // Message from sender
$text.="\n\nTel:".$tel; // Added to message to show me the telephone nr to the sender at bottom of message
$headers="MIME-Version: 1.0"."\n";
$headers.="Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8"."\n";
$headers.="From: $name <$email>"."\n";
mail($to, '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($subject).'?=', $text, $headers, '-fno-reply#domain.com');
Could somebody please tell me why this works most of the time, but sometimes I receive email whith no text and the subject line showing
=?UTF-8?B??=
I use outlook express, and I have read this System.Net.Mail and =?utf-8?B?XXXXX.... Headers
but it didn't help.
The problem is not in Outlook, because when I log in to the actual mailprogram where I fetch the POP3 emails from, the email looks the same.
When I right click in Outlook and chose "message source" then there is no "From" information.
Ex, a good message should look like this:
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?w5Z2cmlndA==?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
From: John Doe
However, the ones with problem looks like this:
Subject: =?UTF-8?B??=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
From:
As if the information has been lost somewhere.
You should know also that I have a VPS, which I manage myself.
I use postfix as an emailserver, if thats got anything to do with it.
But then again, why does it work sometimes?
Also another thing that I have noticed is that sometimes special characters are not shown correctly (by both Outlook and the webmail).
For instance, the name "Björkman" in swedish is shown like Björkman, but again, only sometimes.
I hope anybody knows something about this problem, because it is very hard to track down for me atleast.
If you need more input let me know.
Thanks
When looking at PHP mail(), I see another line breaking: shouldn't you use \r\n as line endings?
And that Björkman example looks very much like your mail is not recognized as UTF-8 encoded.

PHP send MIME emails...doesn't work anymore

I just switched from a shared server to a virtual dedicated. The whole site works, but my mail forms have quit sending MIME emails the way they used to.
What used to appear before the server switch:
hallo fwend
What appears now in the emails (appears as though my client doesn't support MIME):
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="==DL-
bound_b08bcfabdc459ae7e87e493a984115b3"
This is a multipart MIME message from
your friends at Example.com. If you
are reading this, it seems we have a
message to deliver, but your mail
client is not set to receive these
types of messages. We are sorry for
the inconvenience :(
--==DL-bound_b08bcfabdc459ae7e87e493a984115b3
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
hallo fwend
Is there some switch in PHP or something that I need turned on to send MIME?
It look like the headers are send in the body part of the message.
I had this problem a while back.
Possible causes are:
1. EOL
I used "\r\n" as eol for the MIME headers (following the spec)
, but the (shared)server wanted an "\n"
2. Last header
Some mail server add some headers of their own. If the last header end with "\n" and the mail server could also mess thing up.
3. Empty header
An empty header which causes a "\n\n" in the $headers will corrupt the headers. The "\n\n" aka "empty line" marks the end of the headers part of a email (or the start of the body)

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