email users in UTF-8

[alekseyn1]

Hello everybody!

I have an issue that I can not resolve on my own (not enough knowledge)...

I need to send any outgoing e-mail from my 4images installation in UFT-8 format... I have modified the email.php as follows. (I use mail function of PHP and not SMTP)

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....

$this->subject = iconv('windows-1251', 'UTF-8', $subject);

....

$header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" . 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";

.....

// in function prepare_text($message) {

    return iconv('windows-1251', 'UTF-8', $message);

...

function send_email() {
    if ($this->use_smtp) {
      return ($this->smtp_mail($this->to, $this->subject, $this->body, $this->create_header())) ? 1 : 0;
    }
    else {
      //original line was - return (mail($this->to, $this->subject, $this->body, $this->create_header())) ? 1 : 0;
 return (mail($this->to, '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($this->subject).'?=', $this->body, $this->create_header())) ? 1 : 0;
 
    }
  }


I hope there are pro-s out there who could help me out with this.... because in MS Oulook for example it works great, in AOL and Gmail.... but most of my users are on Mail.ru servers and those DO NOT display messages send using the above modifications correctly....

Any suggestions or hints would be greatly appreciated!
Aleksey

[V@no]

They see an empty email?
perhaps it's something with mail.ru itself?

[alekseyn1]

They see an empty email?
perhaps it's something with mail.ru itself?

no... they actually see a message, but the encoding is not recognized... moreover, the switches inside the mail.ru interface can not decode the message..... 

Does the code look ok?

[V@no]

Here is my result:
1) since I'm using plain text in email template I had to replace

  $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" . 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
with

  $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" . 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";

otherwise whole message was displayed in one line.

2) I had to make sure that my site uses windows-1251 encoding (at least the page with email form), otherwise it was sending HTML entities for non-latin letters (тест)

other then that everything looked fine in my tests, even on mail.ru

[EDIT]
attached little fixed version that converts html entities into letters which makes it independent from page encoding.

[alekseyn1]

Thanks very much,

I have forgotten to put headers into a second statement after checking if from is empty... here is the correct function in case someone runs into the same problem

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  function create_header() {
    global $config;
    $header = "";
    if (empty($this->from)) {

      $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" . 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
  $header .= sprintf("Return-Path: %s\r\n", $config['site_email']);
      $header .= sprintf("From: %s\r\n", $config['site_email']);
    }
    else {
  $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n" . 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
      $header .= $this->from;

    }

    if (!empty($this->bcc) && !$this->use_smtp) {
      $bcc_list = "";
      foreach ($this->bcc as $key => $val) {
        $bcc_list .= (($bcc_list != "") ? ", " : "").$val;
      }
      $header .= sprintf("Bcc: %s\r\n", $bcc_list);
    }
    return $header;
  }