[ZendTo] Re: Extra newlines and email headers

[Tony Fairbanks]

Hi Jules,

There's a bug report here https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15841 about 
PHP's mail() function and newlines. Since mail() doesn't talk directly 
to an SMTP server on UNIX but to the local sendmail program, the headers 
should be separated by the native line break. There are also quite a few 
people posting about similar problems on the PHP mail() page (for 
example http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php#100563) and that 
the native EOL marker should be used.

I'm not sure why I'm the only one having this problem. The Postfix 
config is completely stock with the exception of a relayhost defined. 
Scientific Linux 6 is for all intents and purposes the same thing as 
Centos 6 - the SL people do a rebuild of the Red Hat source the same way 
the Centos people do.

Other than this slight glitch, ZendTo is working out absolutely perfect 
for us.

> Email lines should have \r\n at the end of them, and other people are
> using Postfix and sendmail with my code with no problems at all.
> So I would suspect something about your Postfix setup. No-one has ever
> reported this problem, and I have never changed the way I generate email
> messages.
>
> I don't know of anyone else who has used this particular distribution.
>
> Jules.
>
> On 27/09/2011 15:28, Tony Fairbanks wrote:
> >/  Hi,
> />/  I noticed that ZendTo is inserting double newlines after some email
> />/  header fields, making portions of the header info show up in the message
> />/  body. This causes problems, such as making "reply-to" not work.
> />/
> />/  The following chunk of code in lib/NSSDropbox.php originally had \r\n
> />/  for the newline marker. By changing it to just \n the double newlines
> />/  are removed.
> />/
> />/     // Add the From: and Reply-To: headers if they have been supplied.
> />/        if ($fromAddr!="") {
> />/          $headers = sprintf("From: %s\nReply-to: %s\n", $sender, $fromAddr).
> />/                     $headers;
> />/        }
> />/
> />/        // Add the MIME headrs for 8-bit UTF-8 encoding
> />/        $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
> />/        $headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed\n";
> />/        $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n";
> />/
> />/
> />/  This is with a fresh install of Scientific Linux 6.1 (RHEL clone) using
> />/  Postfix, with ZendTo installed via the yum repository.
> />/
> />/  Thanks,
> />/  Tony
> />/
> />/
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