I am trying to send an e-mail using the following code:
$htmlHeaders="";
$htmlHeaders = "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$htmlHeaders .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 \r\n";
$htmlHeaders .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion(). "\r\n";
$htmlHeaders .= "From: System <test#test.com> \r\n";
mail("dest#example.com","Subject",'New test <img src="http://www.someserver/image.jpg">',$htmlHeaders);
what I noticed is that for some images (I always link the images through an http link) are working fine and the mail is delivered correctly, while for some other images I get problems; that is, the image is NOT delivered.
For example, trying to use this image wont work: http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/2601/gitaallago.png
I guess it is a problem of headers, but I really do not understand how to fix this.
Any hints?
Often times the problem is the mail client. Some mail clients by default will only download images under a certain size, some will not download any images at all.
Your best bet (though it can be quite a lot more work than what you're doing now) is to attach the image to the email with a CID and reference the image that way (<img src="cid:whatever">)
It will increase the size of your email because you have to transmit the image with each email, but it will display in far more mail clients that way.
Is the correct MIME type being served by the server for the images?
You didn't make it clear whether or not you're saving the image on your server, and linking to it from there, or linking to it straight from Imageshack (in this example.) If you're linking straight from Imageshack, then MIME types definitely aren't the problem. Worth looking into, however, if you're hosting the images on your server.
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I'm working on building a mailing script in PHP. I have this code:
$mime_boundary = "---".md5(time());
$message = 'Content-Type: application/pdf;name="datenschutz.pdf";charset=utf-8\n';
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n";
$fileContents = file_get_contents("/datenschutz.pdf");
$message .= chunk_split(base64_encode($fileContents)) . "\r\n\r\n";
$message .= "--$mime_boundary--";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
I'm aware that PHPMailer exists, alongside other libraries which would make this easier, but the problem is that I want to sell this software eventually and host it on different servers, so installing a library every time wouldn't be optimal. Therefore, I want to mostly use built-in PHP features.
I do recieve the email, and there is a PDF file attached to it, but neither Browsers nor Adobe Reader can open it.
I personally believe that it is because of the Base64 encoding, since I decoded the file once on a webpage and it worked just fine.
How Am I able to tell the Email program/Adobe Reader to decode the file from base64?
Thanks in advance
Edit: I replaced all different linebreaks with \n\n and redesigned the Content-Type strings so that they are strings with double-quotes. Sadly, it still does not work.
I'm sending mail with the mail() function of php. I embed image using base64 encoding inside the html code, but in gmail for example it doesn't show.
I read that a best way to do that is to use cid in the html code and attaching the image but I find only codes using phpmailer which I would like to avoid but the question is, is it possible with the php mail function or is there some simple classes to simplify the process ?
$message = $html_mail;
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'To: '. $to . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: My website <'.$admin_mail.'>' . "\r\n";
$response = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
Instead to using base64_encode image you should use html image tag with src path of your server, so it will download from your server.
<img src="http://www.yourserver.com/myimages/image1.jpg">
As your mail is having text/html header image will automatically parse via email client.
If you look at the "Original Source" in Gmail, you may find that gmail is editing the html to remove the image. idk if it does that or not though. I would try copying the html from the email in gmail and putting it in an html file and see if it loads in a browser correctly. Then you'll know for sure if gmail is messing it up or if it's a bug in another place.
FYI, sending html emails that work in all email clients can be a huge PAIN. The best guide I know of is this - https://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-code-html-email-newsletters/ . SitePoint also sells a book about it that is the gold standard IMO.
Good luck!
i am not too good with PHP and programming but still i am trying to learn it in every possible way. I need help from experts. My code to send email is as below. i am able to send email, but the problem is, picture is not displaying in email body and it's showing a cross sign. any possible idea and suggestion is appreciated.
<?php
function send_email($from, $to, $subject, $message){
$headers = "From: ".$from."\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: ".$from."\r\n";
$headers .= "CC: abc#gmail.com\r\n , xyz#gmail.com\r\n";
$headers .= "BCC: \r\n";
//set content type to HTML
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
if ( mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers) )
{
header("location:contact-us.php?msg=msgsent");
}
else
{
header("location:contact-us.php?msg=notsent");
}
}
//Function ends here
$from_email="";
$to_email="LMN#gmail.com";
$message.="<html><body background='images/bg11.jpg'>";
$message.="<p style=' color: #006789;'>Dear Team,</p> ";
$message.= "<p style=' color: #006789;'>You have received a feedback from $name & below are the details!!! </p>";
$message.= "<img src=images/c22.jpg>";
$message.="</body></html> ";
send_email(from_email,$to_email,$subject,$message);
?>
You are using a relative path:
<img src=images/c22.jpg>
When you open your mail, that path will mean nothing in a mail client and it is highly unlikely to exist on a webmail client. And if it does, it is not your image...
If you have that image stored on a web-server, you should use the absolute path to that image:
<img src="http://www.your-server.com/images/c22.jpg">
You're using a relative link, "images/c22.jpg", but you're sending this html in an email - there's no images/ directory relative to it to link to. If you wish to link to an image on the web, you can include a full url (http://someplace.com/images/bg11.jpg">). By default, those will usually not be displayed either - most email readers will filter them so as to not let you cause it to load remote content (tipping off that the email was opened, attempting funny business with malformated images, etc).
You can also attach an image to the email by setting the type to multipart/mixed and defining a boundary. Then send an image, defining a content-id in its headers, then your html linking to the content id as "cid:id-you-defined". Looks like this once in the email:
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="NOTUSEDINTEXT"
This text only shows if the reader can't deal with MIME
--NOTUSEDINTEXT
Content-Id: id_for_later
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAYABgAAD/2wBDAAYEBQYFBAYGBQYHBwYIChAKCgkJChQODwwQFxQYGBcU
FhYaHSUfGhsjHBYWICwgIyYnKSopGR8tMC0oMCUoKSj/2wBDAQcHBwoIChMKChMoGhYaKCgoKCgo
KCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCj/wAARCAABAAEDASIA
AhEBAxEB/8QAFQABAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAj/xAAUEAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/8QAFAEB
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP/EABQRAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD/2gAMAwEAAhEDEQA/AJUAB//Z
--NOTUSEDINTEXT
Content-Type: text/html
<html><h1>Hi</h1><p>Here's an image <img src="cid:id_for_later"></html>
--NOTUSEDINTEXT--
.. but as you see it's slightly involved - might want to see if there's a php library that'll implement that (the mime headers and types) rather than pound them in yourself. But if you feel like dealing with it, inserting them yourself is ok too. And.. here too, some clients will filter them for safety unless you've clicked "Always show images" or something.
You have to upload your image on web server and give the absolute path to that image e.g:
<img src="http://www.yourwbesite.com/images/c22.jpg" alt="logo" />
i'm using TCPDF library to generate a PDF (bill) on the fly and send it via email. It all works but i have a weird problem. When i send the email to a gmail account everything is fine, but when i send it to my mail server i get the email with the pdf but when i open it it doesn't open and i get a message "Adobe reader could not open file.pdf because it's either not a supported format or because the file has been damaged." (the pdf in the email is blank).
I save the PDF into a string like so:
$attachment = $pdf->Output("mypdf.pdf","E");
$attachment = chunk_split($attachment);
and send it via email like so:
$header .= "--".$separator.$eol;
$header .= "Content-Type: application/pdf; name='mypdf.pdf'".$eol;
$header .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64".$eol;
$header .= "Content-Disposition= attachment".$eol.$eol;
$header .= $attachment;
i'm sending the email with php mail function.
The funny thing is if i force the download of the pdf, like so:
$attachment = $pdf->Output("mypdf.pdf","D");
the file is OK and opens without a problem! But if i change it back to "E" it doesn't work.
The other weird thing is that some times i can open the pdf (that i got on my mail server) without a problem, but the next time it wont work (even if i send the exact same email).
Does any one have any idea what is going on? I would like to avoid saving the pdf on the local server.
Why you avoid saving pdf file? You can save it with "F" parameter. After mail has sent you can delete it with unlink function
I see some minor flaws:
Content-Disposition= should be Content-Disposition:
You should end your attachment with "--".$separator."--"
I'm not sure, if this fixes your problems. Anyway I think it's quite complicated to create all the headers manually. I use PEARs Mail_Mime for this task since years and you will find a lot of simple ready to use solutions.
I'm trying to send an email from the php mail command. I've been able to what I've tried so far, but can't seem to get it to work with an attachment. I've looked around the web and the best code I've found led me to this:
$fileatt_name = 'JuneFlyer.pdf';
$fileatt_type = 'application/pdf';
$fileatt = 'JuneFlyer.pdf';
$file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
$MAEmail = "myemail#sbcglobal.net";
mail("$email_address", "$subject", "$message",
"From: ".$MAEmail."\n".
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n".
"Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".
"--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" .
" name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .$data. "\n\n" );
There are two problems when I do this. First, the contents of the email dissappear.
Second, there is an error on the attachment. "Adobe Reader could not open June_flyer.pdf because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded)"
Any ideas of how to deal with this?
Thanks,
JB
The very best way how to deal with mail and php is use a reliable well tested library - email with attachments can easily get very nasty. I personally recommend SwiftMailer.
may be problem is within header. if you want to learn the hard way then figure out how you can configure diffrent mimetypes with headers and do the stuff.
or else easy way is use PHPmailer or other email libraries which will do the hard part for you.
One process to learn the correct email format for sending attachments is to try sending yourself an email (with attachment) using Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.
Then view the source of that email. Try copying and pasting that message source into your PHP code (with a little trimming of headers like To and From and Subject that the mail() function already handles) and bada-bing, you have all you need right in front of you.
You can make it dynamic by replacing the chunks of stuff (HTML part, Text part, attachment) with your unique chunks or variables.
Then no fancy library is needed.