Mail function breaking message

[Michael Satterwhite]

I have a survey form that I want mailed to the client. I've built the
message body as plain text and tested it by writing it to a file and
examining the file. It's being built correctly.

When I send it through mail by a command similar to:
mail($to, 'Survey Results', $msgBody, "From: xxx@yyy.com");

the message gets broken up. At periodic places in the file, I seea
"!" (without the quotes) being inserted and the text format is broken.
The only thing I can think of is some type of length restriction. The
message isn't super long, but it isn't short either.

Can anyone offer any help?

[Matt Raines]

Re: Mail function breaking message

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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> When I send it through mail by a command similar to:
> mail($to, 'Survey Results', $msgBody, "From: xxx@yyy.com");
>
> the message gets broken up. At periodic places in the file, I seea
> "!" (without the quotes) being inserted and the text format is broken.
> The only thing I can think of is some type of length restriction. The
> message isn't super long, but it isn't short either.[/color]

I suspect the length of the individual lines in your message body, not the
message as a whole, is causing the problem. I believe lines longer than a
certain number of characters are truncated and an exclamation mark placed
at the end of the line. This happened to me once using the built-in mail
function with sendmail on a Linux box.

Since you say your message is plain text, try running it through wordwrap:
mail($to, 'Survey Results', wordwrap($msgBo dy), "From: xxx@yyy.com");

This splits the string on word boundaries so that each line is not longer
than 75 characters (by default).

--
Matt

[Michael Satterwhite]

Re: Mail function breaking message - FIXED

Matt Raines wrote:
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> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
>[color=green]
>> When I send it through mail by a command similar to:
>> mail($to, 'Survey Results', $msgBody, "From: xxx@yyy.com");
>>
>> the message gets broken up. At periodic places in the file, I seea
>> "!" (without the quotes) being inserted and the text format is broken.
>> The only thing I can think of is some type of length restriction. The
>> message isn't super long, but it isn't short either.[/color]
>
> I suspect the length of the individual lines in your message body, not the
> message as a whole, is causing the problem. I believe lines longer than a
> certain number of characters are truncated and an exclamation mark placed
> at the end of the line. This happened to me once using the built-in mail
> function with sendmail on a Linux box.
>
> Since you say your message is plain text, try running it through wordwrap:
> mail($to, 'Survey Results', wordwrap($msgBo dy), "From: xxx@yyy.com");
>
> This splits the string on word boundaries so that each line is not longer
> than 75 characters (by default).[/color]

That was it. Thanks