Posted by Manuel Lemos on 04/30/07 01:49

Hello,

on 04/29/2007 10:31 PM cybervigilante said the following:
> I sent HTML formatted email, using PHP, to my Yahoo address from my
> server, and it came out fine, styles and all. I sent it to my gmail
> address to test it and all I see is the raw html code. But I do get
> formatted email in gmail, so I know people make it work somehow. I'm
> looking right at a gmail message that I copied to Dreamweaver and it's
> using Strong and Red text attributes that work in gmail. But mine
> don't.
>
> What do you do different in gmail to get formatted HTML email?

You should not send HTML mail messages with a plain text alternative
part. When you do that, mail systems may take it as a sign of spam, as
real mail programs do not send messages that way.

You should compose a multipart/alternative message that contains a text
part and an HTML mail part.

If you do not know how to do that, take a look at this MIME message
class as it makes that task much simpler. Try the
test_simple_html_mail_message.php script.

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage


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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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