Failed to send HTML mails using PHP mail()

Question

Strange things happening to me. I\'m trying to send a HTML mail, using the php mail() function, but no luck here. Even when I copy/paste a piece of code literal

Answer 1

We can't see where the variable $email was set, but I'm guessing that there might be an extra line break at the end of your $email variable. This would have the effect of putting in two linebreaks after the From: header and before the Reply-to: , which signals the start of the body of the message and the completion of the headers.

Try:

$email = trim($email);

before constructing the message. Since there appears to be an extra line break after the Reply-to header as well, my case is even stronger for an extra break in $email.

UPDATE

Also try changing the linebreaks to PHP's native format on the system where the code will run. This is done by replacing \r\n with PHP_EOL

    $headers = "From: " . $email . PHP_EOL;
    $headers .= "Reply-To: ". $email . PHP_EOL;
    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . PHP_EOL;
    $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" . PHP_EOL;

Answer 2

Here is a useful link to sending html emails in php

http://blog.twigahost.com/how-to-send-html-email-with-php/

Answer 3

I recommend you to use a mailer class. They give you the possibility to use smtp auth, so every mail will be passed through. A few examples:

• http://phpmailer.worxware.com/
• http://swiftmailer.org/
• http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.mail.html