Sending Plain Text Email

**stephan beal** · Jul 16 '05, 11:01 PM

Re: Sending Plain Text Email

Sylvie Stone wrote:[color=blue]
> Can someone PLEASE take a look and tell me why carriage returns are
> not being inserted after each $body ? The email comes out as one big
> line.[/color]

This is a complete guess, but perhaps your boss' Windows email client is not
properly translating \n to \r\n. Try an explicite \r\n and see what
happens. A simpler way to do that, instead of doing $body .= "...\r\n" a
bunch of times is:

$body = array();
$body[] = "....";
$body[] = ".....";

$body = join ( "\r\n", $body );

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**fartsniff** · Jul 16 '05, 11:01 PM

Re: Sending Plain Text Email

"stephan beal" <stephan@wander inghorse.net> wrote in message
news:bgr7bt$aja $1@ork.noris.ne t...[color=blue]
> Sylvie Stone wrote:[color=green]
> > Can someone PLEASE take a look and tell me why carriage returns are
> > not being inserted after each $body ? The email comes out as one big
> > line.[/color]
>
>[/color]

if you use phpmailer, you can use altbody to create a text only message

**Ondrej Brablc** · Jul 16 '05, 11:01 PM

Re: Sending Plain Text Email

We had the same problem with MS Outlook. It simply decided it makes the
text nicer and joined the lines. It showed a hint that some line break
were removed, but we have overlooked it and spent some long minutes
playing with \n and \r.

Ondrej

Sylvie Stone wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi All - I have created a survey and I would like the results of the
> survey to be emailed the boss in *plain text*.
>
> Can someone PLEASE take a look and tell me why carriage returns are
> not being inserted after each $body ? The email comes out as one big
> line.
>
> THANK YOU! Sylvie.
>
> include('Mail.p hp');
> include('Mail/mime.php');
> $body .= "Are you aware that SCC has a TDC?\n";
> $body .= "$_POST[one]\n";
> $body .= "Do you know that our resources are available to clients
> outside of SCC on an appointment basis?\n";
> $body .= "$_POST[three]\n";
> $body .= "Do you have occasion to reference the Virtual
> Library?<br>\n" ;
> $body .= "$_POST[four]\n";
> $body .= "Do you require access collections other than those
> available?\n";
> $body .= "$_POST[fivea]\n";
> $body .= "If so, please indicate which collections\n";
> $body .= "$collection\n" ;
> $body .= "Comments\n ";
> $body .= "$_POST[comments]\n";
>
> $crlf = "\r\n";
> $hdrs['From'] = 'anonymous@home .ca';
> $hdrs['To'] = 'theboss@home.c a';
> $hdrs['Subject'] = "TDC Survey for $_POST[year]";
> $mime = new Mail_mime($crlf );
> $mime->setTXTBody($bo dy);
> $body = $mime->get();
> $hdrs = $mime->headers($hdrs) ;
> $mail =& Mail::factory(' mail');
> $mail->send('theboss@ home.ca', $hdrs, $body);[/color]

**Guest** · Jul 16 '05, 11:03 PM

Re: Sending Plain Text Email

"Sylvie Stone" <sylviestone@ca nada.com> wrote in message
news:181a24a8.0 308060718.33ae7 d8f@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
>
> Can someone PLEASE take a look and tell me why carriage returns are
> not being inserted after each $body ? The email comes out as one big
> line.
>[/color]
<snip>[color=blue]
>
> $body .= "Do you have occasion to reference the Virtual
> Library?<br>\n" ;[/color]

If the email comes out as one big line it is because you are lacking line
breaks <br>, which are not the same as new-line (\n). The only place you seem
to have a line break is on the single line quoted above. The new-line
character creates a line break in your resultant source code...not the HTML
output.

Try EITHER:
a) Changing each instance of \n to <br>\n
b) Running the output through nl2br()

HTH!