Comments on: PHP mail() Headers Are Displayed In Email Body

By: donoman

donoman — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:15:56 +0000

can I just say AAARRRGGHHH! Now thank you for enlightening me about \r\n vs \n cause wow I’d never had gotten that and would likely have ended up in Arkham Asylum or something.

By: Sreevalli

Sreevalli — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:47:55 +0000

Hi John, Your post, even after so many years, helped me so much. I was literally going nuts as the client has already gone live and the emails doesn’t work in entourage. The header X-PHP-Originating-Script implanted by PHP was causing all the trouble. Thanks.

By: John C.

John C. — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:43:57 +0000

Nice tip. Thanks!

If your script don’t send e-mails via PHP mail() function, see your server specification for REQUIRED headers.

For the problem with the header at the e-mail’s body, see if your server uses \n (usually linux servers) or \r\n (usually windows servers), or check syntax errors at the header notation.

By: malsafy

malsafy — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:40:02 +0000

also I when i changing \r\n to \n solved my problem.

By: malsafy

malsafy — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:48:31 +0000

when I send mail from my site, no problem with $to but when i use CC
header are displayed in email body
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
and HTML code also like
what i do

By: Oziam

Oziam — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:00:38 +0000

YES!
Thanks Jamie, changing \r\n to \n solved my problem.
This has been bugging me for a while.
Thank god for this website!!!! )

By: Digitalchaos

Digitalchaos — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:02:55 +0000

Thanks for this post. I’ve had headers creeping into the body of the message.
Jamie Thompson’s note solved the problem I’ve been struggling with for months. The switch from \r\n to just \n fixed it in the applications we are using.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:57:10 +0000

@ Jamie Thompson

Thanks for your comment. You helped me sort out a long standing issue I’ve had.

The weird thing is that when the test script was run from our development environment, we did not see the excess headers in the email body. But when we ran the same script in our production environment, it put the headers in the body every time. Removing the carriage return fixed it. I’m not sure whether to blame our production host, our mail server, or both!

By: Jamie Thompson

Jamie Thompson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:32:49 +0000

That’s not the only problem. Using \r\n as a line ending will cause many mail clients to incorrectly parse the header. \n seems to be a more universally accepted solution. Isn’t email fun?

By: Jacob Anders

Jacob Anders — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:55:00 +0000

Can I have more details on this?