Hi there, Thanks for the help, I've sorted it out now - stupid me :-) You know what it's like sometimes, you work that hard on different things that something which should be really simple just goes over your head - well, it does mine anyway :-) Very much appreciated. Chris Hey Chris, Probably a good idea would be to read the email RFC. I'd say that you're trying to send a Multi-part MIME email, but not formatting it correctly. You even forget to include your 'simple' (plain text) message in the email body. SO if you were formatting it correctly, and your friend is only viewing plain text, you won't see anything. Here's the basic structure of a Multi-part MIME email: ---- begin quote ---- From: Persons Name <address@xxxxxxxxxx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=mime_seperator X-Mailer: PHP/5.0.0 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --mime_seperator Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is the plain text part of the email. --mime_seperator Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>Email Title</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> HTML Email in here </BODY> </HTML> --mime_seperator- ---- end quote ---- A few notes for you: 1. "This is a multi-part message in MIME format." begins the email body. (ie it's not a header) 2. Most of the headers need \r\n as a newline. \n won't do. (Checkout the code below to see where to use \r\n and where to use \n) 3. You need a mime seperator to begin each section of the email. it should be preceded by -- each time. You should end the email with the mime seperator preceeded with -- AND suffixed with -. You can use pretty much anything for the seperator. There may be a restriction on which characters you can use. 4. This does not cover attachments. If you want to send attachments in the email, you need to do some further research. Official EMail RFCs: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1341.txt Here's a great tutorial at "PHP Builder": http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/kartic20000807.php3 Here's how I do the above email: <? $myname="My Name"; $my_email="foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"; $username="Person's Name"; $user_email="<someone@xxxxxxxxxx"; $stamp=time(); $subject="General Subject"; $content_boundary="MYDOMAIN_$stamp"; $extra_headers="From: $myname <$my_email> \r\nMIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$content_boundary\"\r\nX-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion(); $start_html="Content-type: text/html;\tcharset=\"us-ascii\"\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n"; $start_text="Content-type: text/plain;\tcharset=\"us-ascii\"\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n"; $message="This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n\r\n"; $message.="--".$content_boundary."\r\n".$start_text; $message.="Plain text email.\r\nA new line\r\n\r\nTwo new lines follwed by some more text." $message.="--".$content_boundary."\r\n".$start_html; $message.="<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\">\r\n<HTML>\r\n<HEAD><TITLE></TITLE>\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY>\ r\n"; $message.="Message body in here"; $message.=\r\n</BODY>\r\n</HTML>"; $message.="--".$content_boundary."-\r\n"; mail($username."<".$user_email.">", $subject, $message, $extra_headers); ?> Hope this helps. Collin -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
