[strings6]

Hello,

I have a function that sends an HTML email with the php mail function. It works great when I check my email with Outlook Express. But when I check my email with Gmail, it does not work. With Gmail you just see the HTML code. Does anyone know what might be going on here? Thanks.

[digioz]

That's because gmail disables HTML inside emails by default. To my knowledge, there is no easy way to enable HTML inside emails in the current beta version of gmail, unless you do POP3 download and view it in Outlook on your PC.

[strings6]

I have gotten html emails from gmail before. They work fine. Mine is the only one that is misbehaving...

[Nico]

And if you ad something like this ?

PHP Code:

$headers = "Content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-9"; 

[strings6]

Yeah, I have something like that

[digioz]

Hmm.... that's strange. Because for some reason my HTML emails don't get through on my gmail account.

[mab]

Originally Posted by nico_swd

And if you ad something like this ?

PHP Code:

$headers = "Content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-9"; 

Are the opening and closing HTML tags present in the message body. One could imagine that one email client follows the rules while another ignores them (especially given MS programmer's past record.)

[strings6]

Yup, all tags are opened and closed properly, including html, head, title and body, as well as all table, tr and td tags.

[strings6]

OK, here is something VERY strange that I cannot explain:

Not only is my HTML code showing up as the message body (rather than what the HTML code should do), but one of the lines from my header shows up at the top too:

Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

This line is appearing before my initial html tag. And what is even more baffling, is the following. I tried making some changes to different parts in my code, like in the style tags and some other places. I saved my changes and re-sent my HTML email. Everything still worked fine in OE and Hotmail (except that Hotmail ticks me off because it is adopting their link colors instead of mine.... now that's a side issue that I also need help on). But when I go to Gmail it's still broken, and here is the really strange thing: The lines of code that I had JUST changed, were ALSO showing at the top of the message body, right under the Content-type line!

Baffled, I tested this again. I made some insignificant changes, like changing colors and such. Saved, resent email, checked Gmail. There it was again! The lines I had JUST changed were appearing at the top of my message body, BEFORE the initial html tag.

What in the world is going on with Gmail? And why is this only happening with MY email. My buddy sends me his HTML emails all the time, using the same content-type, and his works fine.