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Dec 08.2008

Hi all,
I’m trying to send html emails out from a web-application,
my boss i recieving the emails that are supposed to be html formated in plain text.
in gmail, the emails display correctly

I used these two headers:
$headers = “MIME-Version: 1.0rn”;
$headers .= “Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1rn”;

I ran into this issue a few years back, but cant seem to find a solution anymore

Thanks for your help.

Nick
[Solution]
As we all know microsoft sux, and requires the last header to be
$headers = “MIME-Version: 1.0rn”;
so i just switched both headers and it worked fine.
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@bejitto101Dec 08.2008 — Could you provide the code? Because as far as I know, there is nothing wrong with those headers.
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@nicholasjstockauthorDec 08.2008 — thanks man, microsoft sux.
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@TecBratDec 08.2008 — Hi all,

I'm trying to send html emails out from a web-application,

my boss i recieving the emails that are supposed to be html formated in plain text.

in gmail, the emails display correctly

I used these two headers:

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1rn";

I ran into this issue a few years back, but cant seem to find a solution anymore

Thanks for your help.

Nick[/QUOTE]

I think our strings are equivilent, but just in case, here's what I use.
[code=php]$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "rn";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "rn";[/code]

Is it perhaps a setting in his outlook? Have you tried sending it to someone else that uses outlook?
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@MindzaiDec 08.2008 — I seem to remember outlook (the version I used in my last job anyway, 2003 I think) defaults to plain text view. Not alot you can do about that, as others have said your headers are correct but if the client chooses plain text it's outside your control.
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