I have a feedback form where the user can enter his/her feedbacks in a textarea. When the form is submitted I am using the php mail function to get all the user details into my mail.
mail( "aaa#ddd.com", "Subject: Comments posted by $postedBy", $message, "From: $emailID" );
Here $message is the user comments. But I get something like this in the email body.
Hi.test line break\r\nnew line\r\nnewline 2\r\ntest again\r\nagain.
The line breaks in text area are showing up in the mail. How can I fix this?
Edit:
$message = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['comments']);
Are the \r\n directly displayed or is all in one line without seeing \r\n?
For last I think you have to set the correct content-type.
In example 4 on http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php you can see how to set the content-type. But you have to use plain/text for that.
EDIT:
After your edit: mysql_real_escape maskes all linebreaks. use $_POST['comment'] on your mail()-call to have it working!
mail($to, $subject, $_POST['comment'], $from);
There is some function in your code that replaces newline characters with \r\n.
just trace your code and see, where this replacement takes place, and remove it.
Not a big deal
I'm not sure if you've tried this but can you try replacing the "\r\n" with "<br>".
Alternatively see if you can change the email mime type
Check this
http://php.bigresource.com/Email-MIME-Types-KesYPexl.html
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I have a variable say $message which contains the content to be sent in mail using php mail function. This variable $message will contain text that will also have line breaks. This variable data is being fetched from textarea of another file using ajax.
For instance, the actual text is:
Hello
This is a test message
So while sending mail ($message variable), I see Hello This is a test message, without line break. Is there a way to fix this?
You can use like that:
$message = str_replace ('<br>' , '\r\n', $_POST['textarea']);
You can also use nl2br() function here.
Make sue you are using HTML header in mail() function.
Im using php's mail() function to send an e-mail to multiple receivers.
If i enter as the first parameter of the "mail" function something like "example1#example.com,example2#example.com,example3#example.com,example4#example.com,example5#example.com,example6#example.com........" a string of more than 1000 characters, when I receive the e-mail I see a " "(an empty space) being inserted at about the 995th character and whatever e-mail was at that position is broken.
I read that this is because the mail server doesn't accept very long lines of string so you should insert a "\n" at every 70 or so characters.
Therefore, I tried using wordwrap($emailList) that should insert line-breaks.
Unfortunately this doesn't solve my problem and I'm running out of ideas right now.
Finally I was able to solve this problem like this:
I have the to list in a $strTo variable which contains the emails like this "email1, email2, email3, email4, "... with each email separated by ", " .
Before doing the mail() function I did this:
if($strTo != ""){
$strTo = wordwrap($strTo,900,"\r\n ");
$strTo .= "\r\n";
}
Which means I put carriage return, new line and a white space at every 900 characters(without breaking any words) and finally, at the end of the string I inserta carriage return and line feed.
wordwrap did not work for me. I guess it depends upon whether your mail server honor it or not. Also in my case the fold was occurring every 998th character.
I was able to solve using multiple 'To:' fields in message header. e.g.
header = <<EOF
From: xyz#xyz.com
To: abc1#abc.com, abc2#abc.com, abc3#abc.com, ...abc100#abc.com
CC: prq1#prq.com
Subject: 'my subject'
EOF
constructed multiple arrays of 20 each using array.each_slice(20). Then formed the header such that
header = <<EOF
From: xyz#xyz.com
To: abc1#abc.com, abc2#abc.com, abc3#abc.com, ...abc20#abc.com
To: abc21#abc.com, abc22#abc.com, abc23#abc.com, ...abc30#abc.com
To: abc31#abc.com, abc32#abc.com, abc33#abc.com, ...abc40#abc.com
CC: prq1#prq.com
Subject: 'my subject'
EOF
my mail server honored it.
$message = 'New user registration\n\n
There is a new submission on the site and below are the details.\n\n';
I tried to use html but it shows text in email so I change it to plain text. Still cannot make line break.
I am not sure why it is not working as I think.
EDIT #2
$umessage .= 'Download Brochure';
The problem is that it displays in email: Download Brochure
Is there any way around it?
When you use a single quoted string, the line break characters are not interpreted. You need to use " to encapsulate your string.
In addition, you should use \r\n for compatibility with mail clients.
$message = "New user registration\r\n
There is a new submission on the site and below are the details.\r\n";
Try using "\r\n" as line breaks.
$message = 'New user registration\r\n
There is a new submission on the site and below are the details.\r\n';
I've looked around here but could not find an answer regarding the problem that I am facing.
Most similar to my problems are in this: emails sent with php mail don't show up correctly in outlook , but I checked and the solution did not work for me.
I am basically writing a PHP script that sends out emails, with a table in it. The problem however, is that if I receive it in gmail, the email shows up fine, but it does not even come through to Outlook at all.
Examining the source code of emails that do make it through to Outlook, shows a line break for some reason (again not present in gmail)
Eg:
<td> xyz#aaa
tt.com </td>
When it should show up as:
<td> xyz#aaatt.com </td>
In my php code, I even try to remove the line returns and spaces (as there should be no spaces in emails)
$rmv = array("\n");
$lead_email = str_replace($rmv, "", $lead_email);
$rmv = array("\r");
$lead_email = str_replace($rmv, "", $lead_email);
$rmv = array(" ");
$lead_email = str_replace($rmv, "", $lead_email);
For reference, my mail header is as follows:
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\n";
$headers .= 'From: helpdesk#viatechcrm.com' . "\n";
Btw should I use iso-8859-1 or utf-8? I occasionally encounter names with European characters.
Any help greatly appreciated!
EDIT: So I was examining the source code, and found something interesting. The message is really long, but it only shows 3-4 lines. I found that it gets cut off right about 991 characters, thus the email breaking up.. Is this something to do with the Mime-Version 1.0?
How can I increase the number of characters it can receive? I tried adding '\r\n' after every table row, but one of the 4 emails still does not show up for some reason
EDIT 2: Thanks everyone for the help! I finally figured it out, in a forum post dated back in 2009. For future reference, refer to the last posting:
http://forums.devarticles.com/php-development-48/formatting-a-newline-line-break-in-php-html-output-5274.html
You should use UTF-8 if you have non-alphanumeric characters. You should end each header line with a "\r\n", not just a plain "\n". Not sure if this will fix your problem as I can't test, but it is something that you should fix nontheless.
It sounds like you have only added "\r\n" to the HTML part of your message. All header lines must end in "\r\n", not just the lines in the body. Some clients and servers will cope with just "\n" but they really don't have to (see RFC 2822), hence the inconsistencies between Gmail and Outlook.
How can i put commas in the 'From:' field of the mail headers??
For example with "From:Javier, My Site" when i read the email sended with any mail client like outlook, in the From only appears Javier#myinternalserverurl.com.
It cuts the from field by the comma... All the things that i found about 'From' field in php mails says that if you put commas automatically is treated like a list of mails.. any suggestion?
Thanks in adevice!
"From: \"Javier, My Site\" <email#domain.com>" should work