Posted by amygdala on 08/22/07 19:00

"Manuel Lemos" <mlemos@acm.org> schreef in bericht
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> Hello,

Hi Manuel,

Thanks for the response.

<snip>

> The only thing really wrong is that you should not send 8 bit encoded
> messages as many mail gateways do not supported. Instead of 8 bit you
> should use quoted-printable encoding.

Alright, I didn't know this. This makes sense. Cause like I said, even
without me encoding it as utf-8, the problem randomly occured. Perhaps the
apparent random appearance of strange characters and/or missing of
diactrical characters could be explained due to the fact that subsequent
mail messages can get send through different mail gateways to their
end-destination, just like a tcp packets? Or is that not correct? Not very
imporant for me to get answered, but it would help me get a better
understanding of things. ;-)

> You can also have 8 bit characters in the headers but they must be
> encoded with q-encoding to avoid the same problem with the message body.

I probably won't be needing that at this point in time. But that's good to
know also.

> This is a bit complicated to encode by hand. I use this MIME message
> composing and sending class to take care of all that for me.
>
> http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage
>

Although I only had a quick glance at your class, and it probably does the
job well, it looks like a bit of overkill for my purposes. So in conclusion,
is it fair to say that I only need to change:

$headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit' . LF;

to

$headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable' . LF;

and leave

$headers .= 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' . LF;

as is?

Thank you in advance.

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