Multipart Boundary Mail Class

[OAFC_Rob]

Hi, I'm having issues with a multipart boundary mail class I've written, I believe the reason it won't send is because the header information is wrong somewhere but I can't seem to spot it.

 

$this->mimeBoundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x".md5(time())."x";

$this->headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$this->headers .= "From: ".$from."\r\n";
$this->headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"".$this->mimeBoundary."\"";

$this->body = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";

$this->body .= "--".$this->mimeBoundary."\r\n";
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n".
$this->textTemplate."\r\n";
$this->body .= "--".$this->mimeBoundary."\r\n".
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n".
$this->htmlTemplate."\r\n".
"--".$this->mimeBoundary."--\r\n";

return mail($to, $subject, $this->body, $this->headers); 

[DavidAM]

Make sure the From: email address is a valid email address owned by the mail server sending the email

 

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n".

These are basically "headers" to this part of the message. They need to be on separate lines (just as if they were in the mail headers). Also, (I think) there should be a blank line between the last "header" and the content. The message body should look something like this:

 

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--MIME boundary 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Plain text message here
--MIME boundary
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

HTML Message here
--MIME boundary--

 

Check the return value of the mail() function to see if it succeeds or fails.

 

Are you certain the message is not sent? Is it in your spam/junk folder?

[OAFC_Rob]

Sorry it's taken me ages to actually get back to this issue. I have managed to get the mail class to now send the mail, it seems that my hosting company was blocking the mail for being spam because the email address in the freom section wasn't setup.

 

Now I'm having issues with the multipart boundaries, it is outputting the entire html code etc...

 

 

$this->mimeBoundary = "Multipart_Boundary_x".md5(time())."x";


		    $this->headers  = "From: ".$this->from."\r\n\r\n";
		    $this->headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n\r\n";
		    $this->headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=".$this->mimeBoundary."\r\n\r\n";
		    $this->headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit". "\r\n\r\n";

		    $this->body	 = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n\r\n";
		    $this->body    .= "--".$this->mimeBoundary."\r\n".
							  "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n".
							  $this->textTemplate."\r\n";
		    $this->body   .=  "--".$this->mimeBoundary."\r\n".
							  "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n".
							  $this->htmlTemplate."\r\n".
							  "--".$this->mimeBoundary."--";

[OAFC_Rob]

fixed it, the code previous had to many \r\n for the headers aftera bit of trail and error on my server. Then it came through as a blank email after further investigation it was because I needed an extra \n for each boundary, bloody hell that was annoying to hunt down!

 

Hope this helps anyone who might have the same problem.

 

$this->mimeBoundary = "Multipart_Boundary_x".md5(time())."x";


		 $this->headers = "From: ".$this->from."\r\n";
		 $this->headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
		 $this->headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=".$this->mimeBoundary."\r\n";
		 $this->headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit". "\r\n";

		 $this->body	 = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
		 $this->body .= "--".$this->mimeBoundary."\r\n".
							 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\n".
							 $this->textTemplate."\r\n";
		 $this->body .= "--".$this->mimeBoundary."\r\n".
							 "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n\n".
							 $this->htmlTemplate."\r\n".
							 "--".$this->mimeBoundary."--\r\n";

Edited January 26, 2013 by OAFC_Rob