HTML email only shows code

tlarson · **Joined:** 2009-09-16 (22:20) **Posts:** 4

Just dl'ed TAF and i love it so far great stuff here

I set TAF up to send html emails with no problem.
But I only have one issue: when i receive them i see the HTML code with no formatting. What am i missing?

Emails show up like this:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Website recommendation by Tim Larson</title>
    <style type="text/css">
    <!--
      body {
          font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
          background-color:#A8DBEE;
          color:#00007F;
      }
    -->
   </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>AAAAAAAAAAARG!</p>
    <p><a href="http://www.churchoftheking.com/">http://www.churchoftheking.com/</a></p>
    <p></p>
    <p></p>
    <p></p>
    <p></p>
    <p>-----------------------------------------</p>
    <p>This e-mail has been sent by Tim Larson (tlarson@churchoftheking.com).</p>
    <p>Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)</p>
    <p>64.16.186.250 (nsc64.16.186-250.newsouth.net)</p>
    <p>2009-09-16 (14:24:32)</p>

  </body>
</html>

Ralf · **Joined:** 2003-07-27 (00:49) **Posts:** 7357

Do you have these two lines in the mail header of your mail template?

Code:

Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Ralf

tlarson · **Joined:** 2009-09-16 (22:20) **Posts:** 4

Yea, I sure do, Ralf. Here's what it looks like:

To: {friend_email}
From: {firstname} {lastname} <{sender_email}>
Subject: Website recommendation by {firstname} {lastname}
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
...etc

Ralf · **Joined:** 2003-07-27 (00:49) **Posts:** 7357

Could you please post the link to your script.

Ralf

tlarson · **Joined:** 2009-09-16 (22:20) **Posts:** 4

...[private code]

Thanks for the assist Ralf

Ralf · **Joined:** 2003-07-27 (00:49) **Posts:** 7357

I've sent you an e-mail. :-)

Ralf

tlarson · **Joined:** 2009-09-16 (22:20) **Posts:** 4

YYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
:lol:

Thank to so much Ralf! U save my @$$! U rock!

tawandaex3 · **Joined:** 2009-10-26 (09:09) **Posts:** 1

Hi guys,
I'm getting the same error. How did you solve this issue?

my page link is:

Code:

http://www.anodomino.com/nwc

Thanks

Regards,
Andre

alan653 · **Joined:** 2010-01-11 (23:44) **Posts:** 3

I've got the html email showing only the HTML code problem - does anyone know what causes this and how to resolve it?

I've tried changing the Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding but can't get anything to work.

It seems that other people have run into this problem and fixed it, but how they did this hasn't been posted.

Any help appreciated!

Alan

Ralf · **Joined:** 2003-07-27 (00:49) **Posts:** 7357

Could you please post the content of your mail template as well as the URL of the script?

Best regards

Ralf

alan653 · **Joined:** 2010-01-11 (23:44) **Posts:** 3

Ralf,

I haven't changed the default HTML template, which is as follows:

To: {friend_email}
From: {firstname} {lastname} <{sender_email}>
Subject: Website recommendation by {firstname} {lastname}
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Website recommendation by {firstname} {lastname}</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
{comment}
<a href="{url}">{url}</a>
{checkbox:newsletter}
{checkbox:information}
{radiobutton:salutation}
{select:Vote}
-----------------------------------------
This e-mail has been sent by {firstname} {lastname} ({sender_email}).
{env_user_agent}
{env_remote_address} ({env_remote_host})
{env_year}-{env_month}-{env_day} ({env_hour}:{env_minute}:{env_second})

</body>
</html>

I'm trying this out on some test web space at the moment at http://dd.oakridgeinternet.co.uk/index.php.

Thanks for any help you can offer,

Alan

Ralf · **Joined:** 2003-07-27 (00:49) **Posts:** 7357

Which version of the script are you using? The latest version (2.9.1) should be able to handle this.

Ralf

alan653 · **Joined:** 2010-01-11 (23:44) **Posts:** 3

Ralf,

I appear to be using the 2.9 version - how would I tell if I was using 2.9.1?

The download available from the web site delivers 2.9, though the comments in index.php say "Version......: 0.4".

Thanks,

Alan

Ralf · **Joined:** 2003-07-27 (00:49) **Posts:** 7357

Version 2.9 and 2.9.1 are virtually the same. Doesn't matter.

The HTML mail should work as long as the line Content-Type: text/html is in the template.For some reason it gets lost because in the mail header of the e-mail I received that line is gone.

Ralf

BeachApe · **Joined:** 2010-02-21 (19:32) **Posts:** 2

Ralf wrote:

Version 2.9 and 2.9.1 are virtually the same. Doesn't matter.

The HTML mail should work as long as the line Content-Type: text/html is in the template.For some reason it gets lost because in the mail header of the e-mail I received that line is gone.

Ralf

I have the same problem. Can I get the fix you gave to tlarson?
Called from here - http://londonhomeandgardenshow.com/media.html
Template - http://londonhomeandgardenshow.com/taf/templates/html_mail.tpl.txt

Ralf · **Joined:** 2003-07-27 (00:49) **Posts:** 7357

Sorry for the late reply. I'm afraid, I don't have an answer. By rights the script should send HTML e-mails. It does in my tests.

The fix that has been mentioned here doesn't apply here because it's already part of script.

Ralf

kkovacs · **Joined:** 2010-03-29 (21:28) **Posts:** 2

Hi Ralf,

i have the same problem, but only with some of the e-mail clients (Lotus Notes e.g.), but i don't know what can be the problem with my code..
this is in the top:

$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: test@test.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit' . "\r\n";

$to = $clientemail;
$subject = "something... ";

thanks for the help in advance!

Ralf · **Joined:** 2003-07-27 (00:49) **Posts:** 7357

Are you using our Form Mail Script?

Ralf

kkovacs · **Joined:** 2010-03-29 (21:28) **Posts:** 2

Hi,

no, but it was solved after i have posted this message:) thanks for reading!