[SOLVED] php mail goes to inbox as a .dat file

jesushax · July 14, 2008

Hi could anyone tell me why a php html mail script would be sent as a .dat attachment?

Cheers

Wuhtzu · July 14, 2008

Few more detail please...

The "mail" you try to sent get's attached as a .dat. What about the mail to which the .dat is attached? What topic does it have, what is in it's body and what does the .dat contain?

My guess (and it is only a guess, I don't know much about mail servers) is that the e-mail you sent is somehow faulty / incorrect and the server corrects this by attaching your faulty e-mail message to a correct formatted e-mail message...

The code might be helpful too

jesushax · July 14, 2008

heres the full page code

<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/new/includes/connection.php');
session_start();
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/new/includes/header.php');

function ShowForm() {
?>
<form name="lostpass" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>?action=lostpass">
<p style="padding:2px 0;">
Your Email Address :
<input name="txtEmailAddress" type="text" size="30"></p> 
<p style="text-align:center;"><input name="" type="submit" value="Reset My Password"></p>

</form>
<p style="padding:2px 0; text-align:center;">
<a href="/new/admin/index.php">Back To Login Form</a>
</p>
<?php
}

function createRandomPassword() {

    $chars = "abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz023456789";
    srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
    $i = 0;
    $pass = '' ;

    while ($i <= 7) {
        $num = rand() % 33;
        $tmp = substr($chars, $num, 1);
        $pass = $pass . $tmp;
        $i++;
    }
    return $pass;
}

switch(@$_GET["action"]) {
Case "noemail":
echo "<h3>Lost Password</h3>";
echo '<span style="font-weight:bold; color:#FF0000;">Error: The email address you provided does not exist.</span>';
ShowForm();
break;

Case "lostpass":
ini_set ("smtp.karoo.co.uk","*******");
ini_set ("sendmail_from","********");

echo "<h3>Lost Password</h3>";
$Email =  $_POST["txtEmailAddress"];

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tblAdmin WHERE UserEmail='$Email' ") or die(mysql_error());

$rspass = mysql_fetch_array($sql);

if(mysql_num_rows($sql) < 1){
header("Location: ".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?action=noemail"); //address doesnt exist
}
else{
$ID = $rspass["UserID"];
$Username = $rspass["UserName"];

// creat password
$password = createRandomPassword();

$Newpass = md5($password);

mysql_query("UPDATE tblAdmin SET UserPassword='$Newpass' WHERE UserID='$ID'") or die(mysql_error());

$to = "$Email";
$subject = ": Your New Password";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Reset Password</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Your password for   Has been reset to the following</p>
<p>Your Username is: $Username</p>
<p>Your New Password is: $password</p>
<p>To change your password please login and go to the My Details section of the site and change your password there.<br/>
</p>
</body>
</html>
";// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";// More headers

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
header("Location: /new/admin/index.php?action=sent");
}
break;
default:
echo "<h3>Lost Password</h3>";
ShowForm();
break;
}
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/new/includes/footer.php');
s
?>

and

the .dat file has this info in

<html>

<head>

<title>Reset Password</title>

</head>

<body>



Your password for has been reset to the following

Your Username is: Alex

Your New Password is: d4r04krb

To change your password please login and go to the My Details section of the site and change your password there. 



</body>

</html>

thanks

Wuhtzu · July 14, 2008

I'm not sure what I ask will help solve your problem, but I would like to know topic, body and headers (if you have them from your e-mail client) of the e-mail message containing the .dat attachment....

jesushax · July 14, 2008

not sure if i get what yoru after here, but the email that is recieved is

From: info@domain.com

Subject: Your New password - as stated in the code

and the body

theres isnt one, the bosy is in the .dat attchement

Cheers

jesushax · July 14, 2008

any ideas?

Wuhtzu · July 14, 2008

If I were to debug the script I would cut to the bare bones and then start filling on until this strange behavior starts appearing...

Start out with this and get that to work:

<?php

$to = "$Email";
$subject = ": Your New Password";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Reset Password</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Your password for   Has been reset to the following</p>
<p>Your Username is: $Username</p>
<p>Your New Password is: $password</p>
<p>To change your password please login and go to the My Details section of the site and change your password there.<br/>
</p>
</body>
</html>
";// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";// More headers

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

?>

jesushax · July 15, 2008

i just craeted a test page to send an email and unless i define the from address i get a php error

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing in C:\Websites\*****\test.php on line 23

so ehres the code i used, therse not problem with the code here

<?php 
$to = "alex@mydomain.com";
$subject = ": Your New Password";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>Reset Password</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Your password for   Has been reset to the following</p>
<p>Your Username is: Username</p>
<p>Your New Password is: password</p>
<p>To change your password please login and go to the My Details section of the site and change your password there.<br/>
</p>
</body>
</html>
";// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: <info@mydomain.com>' . "\r\n";

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>

i think its the php.ini file need setting, would anybody know what settings id need to tell my domain host to do?

Thanks

DeanWhitehouse · July 15, 2008

u could try using phpmailer

samshel · July 15, 2008

What is the name of the .dat file winmail.dat?

jesushax · July 15, 2008

the name of the .dat file is the subject of the email

_Your New Password.dat

samshel · July 15, 2008

Hi jesushax,

That code works perfectly on my machine. Is .dat file being attached in your outlook client or are you using any webmail like hotmail, yahoo, if not, try using a webmail so we can pinpoint the issue.

jesushax · July 15, 2008

hi yeah sending to a hotmail account works fine

to outlook via exchange server it comes as a .dat

samshel · July 15, 2008

then...i think its something got to do with your outlook configuration ...

jesushax · July 15, 2008

hmmm ill look into it but it happens on all computers on our network

DeanWhitehouse · July 15, 2008

send one to me

deanwhitehouse6@hotmail.com

jesushax · July 15, 2008

one should be on the way now,

it goes fine to hotmail though you should receive it correctly

DeanWhitehouse · July 15, 2008

works fine in windows live mail, i think it is ure server config for outlook,

jesushax · July 15, 2008

how would i look into this?

Thanks

samshel · July 15, 2008

I think you should consult your systems administrator. As this problem is not PHP related anymore, could you please mark the topic as solved

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