mail() procmail and sendmail problems.

[exbabylon]

I am currently using PHP to send reports to my client. Here is an example:

<?php
$foo = explode("[", $foo);
$main = "";
foreach($foo as $bar){
$bar = ereg_replace("]", "", $bar);
$bar = explode("|", $bar);
    foreach($bar as $foobar){
        $main .= "<tr><td>$foobar[0]</td><td>$foobar[1]</td><td>$foobar[2]</td><td>$foobar[4]</td><td>$foobar[3]</td></tr>";
    }
}

mail("user@mydoman.com", "Report", "Here is your report for today<p><table>$main</table>", "Content-Type: text/html");
?>

The $main variable gets up to 60-70 rows. However, I am experiencing problems with this. Not my script, but the mail() function.

When I send this to any address on MY domain, it truncates the $main vairable after about 1500 characters. But, if I send it to my local internet provider, me@myisp.com it sends through PERFECT! Odd huh?

I used two re-write of the function:

function n_mail($fromaddress, $toaddress, $subject, $body, $headers) { 
$fp = popen('/usr/sbin/sendmail -f'.$fromaddress.' '.$toaddress,"w"); 
if(!$fp) return false; 
fputs($fp, "To: $toaddress\n"); 
fputs($fp, "Subject: $subject\n"); 
fputs($fp, $headers."\n\n"); 
fputs($fp, $body); 
fputs($fp, "\n"); 
pclose($fp); 
return true; 
}

function o_mail($from, $to , $subject,$core_msg, $add_header) 
{ 

$cmd_line=sprintf("/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
$fp=popen($cmd_line,"w"); 
$temp=sprintf("To: %s\n",$to); 
$len=strlen($temp); 
$ret_p=fputs($fp,$temp,$len); 
$temp=sprintf("Subject: %s\n",$subject); 
$len=strlen($temp); 
$ret_p=fputs($fp,$temp,$len); 
if ($add_header != "") 
{ 
$temp=sprintf("%s\n",$add_header); 
$len=strlen($temp); 
$ret_p=fputs($fp,$temp,$len); 
} 
$temp=sprintf("\n%s\n",$core_msg); 
$len=strlen($temp); 
$ret_p=fputs($fp,$temp,$len); 
pclose($fp); 
}

They both work the same as the mail() function, and thus, have the same exact problems!

So, I looked into my hosts PHP.INI file... they sent it to me. Here is the code around the mail part of it:

mail function]
SMTP			=	localhost			;for win32 only
sendmail_from	=	me@localhost.com	;for win32 only
;sendmail_path	=						;for unix only, may supply arguments as well (default is sendmail -t)

They say they are using procmail to deliver mail locally. I have yet to find a cure for this. It is NOT feasible to send this email to a host OTHER than user@mydomain.com so I must find a cure for this. Mabey a SMTP connection? I'm not sure... but I need to find out!

I am hoping that mabey some of you can help me with this delema. If you still need clarification here is an example of what I might get in my message when sent to me@mydomain.com

Here is your report for today<p><table><tr><td>a1</td><td>a2</td><td>a3</td><td>a4</td><td>a5</td></tr><tr><td>b1</td><td>b2</td><td>b3</td><td>b4</td><td>b5</td></tr><tr><td>c1</td><td>c2</td><td>c3</td><td>c4</td><td>c5</td></tr><tr><td</table>

See where the begining of the last <td> is like <td without the closing > This happens in different spots depending upon the length of the $bar variables.

I have sendmail setup... and I can access it just fine for using CGI and formmail etc.

God Bless, and hope you can help me!