Hi
i have an email script in php send emails to client automatically with attachement ..the problem
with gmail i can get the pdf attachment no problem..
with outlook there ie a problem that the attachement is not openning said pdf not readable
with thunderbird the attachment is empty size 0
any help please
asaidi 0 Junior Poster
Atli 182 Posting Pro
Could you post your code?
Of the top of my head, I would guess that the headers for the email attachment are somehow incorrect. For instance, if you pass an invalid Content-Length header, or don't pass it at all, it is entirely possible that some email clients won't download the file correctly, or just assume it is empty.
asaidi 0 Junior Poster
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$output = ob_get_clean();
file_put_contents('reported.html',$output);
//echo $output;
//mail($email,"Daily Report not reported","<html><body>$output</body></html>","MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/html; /charset=iso-8859-1\r\n");
require(dirname(__FILE__).'/html2pdf/html2pdf.class.php');
$font="<page style='font-family: Arial'>...</page>";
try {
$html2pdf = new HTML2PDF('P', 'A4', 'en', true, 'UTF-8',5);// you can use the default parms
$html2pdf->pdf->SetDisplayMode('fullpage');
$html2pdf->writeHTML($output);
$html2pdf->Output('reported.pdf','F');
}
catch(HTML2PDF_exception $e) {
echo $e;
}
echo '<br>';
//-----------------------------------------------
//DECLARE LES VARIABLES
//-----------------------------------------------
$email_expediteur='info@campion.ie';
$email_reply='info@campion.ie';
$message_texte=' ';
$message_html='<html>
<head>
<title>Not Reported Units</title>
</head>
<br>
<body>Units not reported </body>
</html>';
//-----------------------------------------------
//GENERE LA FRONTIERE DU MAIL ENTRE TEXTE ET HTML
//-----------------------------------------------
$frontiere = '-----=' . md5(uniqid(mt_rand()));
//-----------------------------------------------
//HEADERS DU MAIL
//-----------------------------------------------
$headers = 'From :<'.$email_expediteur.'>'."\n";
$headers .= 'Return-Path: <'.$email_reply.'>'."\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0'."\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="'.$frontiere.'"';
//-----------------------------------------------
//MESSAGE TEXTE
//-----------------------------------------------
$message = 'This is a multi-part message in MIME format.'."\n\n";
$message .= '--'.$frontiere."\n";
$message .= 'Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"'."\n";
$message .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'."\n\n";
$message .= $message_texte."\n\n";
//-----------------------------------------------
//MESSAGE HTML
//-----------------------------------------------
$message .= '--'.$frontiere."\n";
$message .= 'Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"'."\n";
$message .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'."\n\n";
$message .= $message_html."\n\n";
$message .= '--'.$frontiere."\n";
//-----------------------------------------------
//PIECE JOINTE
//-----------------------------------------------
$message .= 'Content-Type: application/pdf; name=$name'.'.pdf'."\n";
$message .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64'."\n";
$message .= 'Content-Disposition:attachement; filename='.$name.'.pdf'."\n";
$message .= chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents($name.'.pdf')))."\n";
if(mail($email,'Daily Report',$message,$headers))
{
echo 'Mail was sent to '.$email.'<br/>';
}
else
{
echo 'mail failed...';
}
//mail($email,"Monthly Report send from my scheduler ahmed for:","ppppp","pppp");
//mail($email,"Daily Report for:". $surname,"<html><body>$output</body></html>","MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n");
?>
`
Atli 182 Posting Pro
OK, there are two things in there I would question. First, like I mentioned before, you may want to include a Content-Length header for attachments, so the clients will know how much data to expect.
Second, why do you chunk_split() the PDF data? Injecting newline characters into the PDF's binary data stream doesn't seem like a great idea. (Although, it's Base64 encoded, so I don't know exactly how that would be handled.)
O, and also, the email meta-data (headers and empty lines) should use Windows style new lines \r\n instead of just \n. Although, this is more a matter of proper style rather than a practical error. Most email clients can deal with Unix style new lines as well.
With all that said, I strongly suggest you adopt a more "robust" email library. The PHP mail() function is fine for simple mails, but if you intend to be sending complex HTML mails and attachemnts, I suggest use either Swift Mailer or PHPMailer. Those already have stable support for these types of mails. No need to reinvent the wheel!
asaidi 0 Junior Poster
Hi
thank you
really i m new to the php mail system the first time i m using it.
i found mail as example to use than i used it until i found this problem with some mail clients..
what i understood i must change \n to \r\n
also i must include content-length
i will change this and see
for using swiftmailer or phpmailer really i want to know them as i m using database
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