Posted by Shelly on 08/19/07 21:01

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Shelly wrote:
>> When using the mail() call, I formatted the message with "\n" for new
>> lines. The text of the email ran together without line breaks. I also
>> tried "\r\n" and that also didn't work. The email reader I am using is
>> Outlook Express and is set to plain text. I checked the manual and it
>> says to use "\n".
>
> Hmmm, are you sending this as html email? What does the email source look
> like? How about the code you're using to send the mail?

Here is the call that I make:
$message = "A bunch of stuff with \n to separate the lines"; <=== not
the actual code, of course
$message .= "\\nThank you for your order.";
$mailit = mail_attachment ($send_from , $sent_to, $cc_sendto,
$ORDER_PLACED, $message, "");

Here is the function that I call (I got it on the web and modified it
slightly):

function mail_attachment ($from, $to, $cc, $subject, $message, $attachment){
$fileatt = $attachment; // Path to the file
$fileatt_type = "application/octet-stream"; // File Type
$start= strrpos($attachment, '/') == -1 ? strrpos($attachment, '//') :
strrpos($attachment, '/')+1;
$fileatt_name = substr($attachment, $start, strlen($attachment)); //
Filename that will be used for the file as the attachment

$email_from = $from; // Who the email is from
$email_subject = $subject; // The Subject of the email
$email_txt = $message; // Message that the email has in it

$email_to = $to; // Who the email is to
$email_cc = $cc; // Who the email is to

$headers = "From: ".$email_from;
if (strlen($email_cc) > 0) $headers .= "\nCc: " . $email_cc;

if (strlen($fileatt) > 0) {
$file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
fclose($file);
} else {
$data = "";
}

$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
" boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

//$email_txt .= $msg_txt;

$email_message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
"--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type:text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
$email_txt . "\n\n";

if (strlen($data) > 0) $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

$email_message .= "--{$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" .
$data . "\n\n" .
"--{$mime_boundary}--\n";


$ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

if($ok) {
return "OK";
} else {
return "Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please go back and try
again!";
}
}


Hope that helps.

Shelly

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