problem with email

[delpino]

I have an account with Ventures (which hosts sitepoint too) Since a week or two I have problem with the mail function with php.

If I send something like this:

$msg="this is line one
this is line two
this is line three";

mail($email, $mailsubject, $msg, $mailheaders);

this will send the message with returns:

this is line one

this is line two

this is line three

before it wasn't like this, anybody has a clue why this happens?

[freakysid]

Did you FTP a new version of the script to the server before this problem arose? If you have FTPed a new version of the script in question to the server, I am more inclined to think this is where things have gone wrong. Perhaps you uploaded in binary instead of ASCII? I would try FTPing the script again. But then, I could be completely on the wrong track here

[Jeff Lange]

are you using windows newlines? or unix newlines? or mac?

[delpino]

I didn't change anything... so I think my host must have changed something.. Besides I use secure copy (PenguiNet) to upload scripts.. there is no binary or ascii mode.

right now I have to do the following:

$msg="this is line one\nthis is line two\nthis is line three";

this will solve the problem, but it doesn't look very good, and its hard to handle this way.

I use Windows XP (Homesite) to edit the scripts.

[delpino]

anybody?

I noticed that the notifications from Sitepointforums have the same problems with too many blank lines.

[delpino]

I solved this with this:

$msg=str_replace("\n", "", $msg);