Re: [PHP] HTML Email Composing Problem.
Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: Chris wrote: Richard Lynch wrote: On Thu, July 26, 2007 2:46 pm, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: I'm trying to use PHP to compose an HTML formatted email Don't do that... 3) Spam Assassin doesn't like it either way and tags the email as SPAM for the following reasons: 0.6 HTML_SHORT_LENGTH BODY: HTML is extremely short 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 1.5 MIME_BASE64_TEXT RAW: Message text disguised using base64 encoding snip However, I would still like to get answers on questions 1 and 2 for future reference so any thoughts would be great. They're pretty self explanatory. 1) Make your message longer 2) Your message contains html. Your rules are set up to flag anything with html as spam. -- Postgresql php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] HTML Email Composing Problem.
Richard Lynch wrote: On Thu, July 26, 2007 2:46 pm, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: I'm trying to use PHP to compose an HTML formatted email Don't do that... 3) Spam Assassin doesn't like it either way and tags the email as SPAM for the following reasons: 0.6 HTML_SHORT_LENGTH BODY: HTML is extremely short 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 1.5 MIME_BASE64_TEXT RAW: Message text disguised using base64 encoding The only people who send out these stupid HTML enhanced (cough, cough) messages are spammers. Pfft. There are tons of legitimate reasons to send html emails. To get rid of the last one, don't base_64 encode your html content. You only need to base64_encode embedded images or attachments (pdf's, docs, stuff like that). As someone else suggested, check out phpmailer - it handles all this for you and works pretty nicely. -- Postgresql php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] HTML Email Composing Problem.
0.6 HTML_SHORT_LENGTH BODY: HTML is extremely short Well, lengthen it then. 1.5 MIME_BASE64_TEXT RAW: Message text disguised using base64 encoding Don't do that. Use plain text or quoted printable. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. Try HTML MIME mail - it does every thing for you: http://www.phpguru.org/static/htmlMimeMail5.html -- Richard Heyes +44 (0)844 801 1072 http://www.websupportsolutions.co.uk Knowledge Base and HelpDesk software that can cut the cost of online support -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] HTML Email Composing Problem.
Chris wrote: Richard Lynch wrote: On Thu, July 26, 2007 2:46 pm, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: I'm trying to use PHP to compose an HTML formatted email Don't do that... 3) Spam Assassin doesn't like it either way and tags the email as SPAM for the following reasons: 0.6 HTML_SHORT_LENGTH BODY: HTML is extremely short 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 1.5 MIME_BASE64_TEXT RAW: Message text disguised using base64 encoding The only people who send out these stupid HTML enhanced (cough, cough) messages are spammers. Pfft. There are tons of legitimate reasons to send html emails. To get rid of the last one, don't base_64 encode your html content. You only need to base64_encode embedded images or attachments (pdf's, docs, stuff like that). As someone else suggested, check out phpmailer - it handles all this for you and works pretty nicely. I would have to agree with you Chris, there a many legitimate reasons for having HTML mail. I was trying to be a nice guy and send both the plain text version and the html version out but like I said, I couldn't get it to stop displaying both. I dumped the base_64 encoding already and also gave up on trying to do a multipart/mixed with both plain text and html and am just composing them as plain text or html as needed. PHPMailer is great for a resource but this is a customized project and PHPMailer won't fit in it. Plus I really would like to have this knowledge rattlin' around in my head anyways. It all works with Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail. It displays properly and isn't shoved into the Junk/Spam folders. Everything displays right in Thunderbird and Outlook Express and the only time it's flagged as spam is if it goes through my main account which, in reality, has a insanely low score base (.5) and it's now scoring a .6 so I think I've got a solution. However, I would still like to get answers on questions 1 and 2 for future reference so any thoughts would be great. Thanks! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] HTML Email Composing Problem.
On Fri, July 27, 2007 11:01 am, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: I would have to agree with you Chris, there a many legitimate reasons for having HTML mail. I was trying to be a nice guy and send both the plain text version and the html version out but like I said, I couldn't get it to stop displaying both. Just set up two different mailing lists (internally) and when a user subscribes they can pick html/plain and you subscribe them to the correct list. PS There may be legitimate reasons why somebody thinks they need to send me HTML enhanced (cough, cough) email, but I've personally NEVER found one that had sufficient added value to make it worth receiving as HTML enhanced (cough, cough) email. YMMV -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] HTML Email Composing Problem.
I'm trying to use PHP to compose an HTML formatted email and I'm running into some small problems. 1) When using Content-Type: multipart/mixed during my testing both Thunderbird and Gmail display the plain text and html version of the email and Firefox attaches the html portion as an attachement. 2) When using Content-Type: multipart/alternative during my testing Thunderbird only showed the HTML portion of the email but Gmail displayed only a blank email. 3) Spam Assassin doesn't like it either way and tags the email as SPAM for the following reasons: 0.6 HTML_SHORT_LENGTH BODY: HTML is extremely short 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 1.5 MIME_BASE64_TEXT RAW: Message text disguised using base64 encoding Here is the script, which I mostly borrowed from tutorials/how to examples on the web. $to=Tom Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]; $from=Support [EMAIL PROTECTED]; $subject=Test HTML Email; // -- plain text part of the email $msgtext=This is HTML Testing; //-- html part of the email $htmlmsg=chunk_split(base64_encode(This is bHTML/b testing.)); //-- create boundary $sep = strtoupper(md5(uniqid(time(; //-- create email $header = From: $from\n; $header .= MIME-Version: 1.0\n; $header .= Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=$sep\n\n; $header .= --$sep\n; $header .= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n; $header .= Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n; $header .= $msgtext\n\n; $header .= --$sep\n; $header .= Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\n; $header .= Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n; $header.= $htmlmsg\n\n; $header .= --$sep--; //-- mail it mail($to, $subject, , $header); Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] HTML Email Composing Problem.
On Thu, July 26, 2007 2:46 pm, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: I'm trying to use PHP to compose an HTML formatted email Don't do that... 3) Spam Assassin doesn't like it either way and tags the email as SPAM for the following reasons: 0.6 HTML_SHORT_LENGTH BODY: HTML is extremely short 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 1.5 MIME_BASE64_TEXT RAW: Message text disguised using base64 encoding The only people who send out these stupid HTML enhanced (cough, cough) messages are spammers. Okay, and people not clueful enough to turn off HTML in bad email clients that default it on, so that they can send a zero-value-added email with the HTML enhancment (cough, cough). Still, the point is that you will most likely never ever fix problem 3. [opinion] HTML enhanced email is a blight up on the universe and should be eradicated whenever and wherever possible. [/opinion] YMMV NAIAA -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
