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I've been using php to send html emails to people daily for over a year and it has always worked until today, all the emails sent to gmail accounts just displayed the html code. I haven't changed any code recently. It always just displays the html code now in gmail instead of showing the hyperlinks and images.

Here's what it shows:

Reply-To: [email protected]

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

X-Mailer: PHP/5.3.2 Message-Id: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:03:03 -0700 (PDT)

... etc.

What happened? Did google change something?

Thomas
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This has also started happening for me since yesterday: 25/04/2012. I have been receiving the same email, same format daily for the last few years - and yesterday seized to stop displaying in HTML format!

Comparing the message content - only thing different I can see from a previous email that displayed correctly is the addition after the authentication results of the following:

Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:31:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <[email protected]>

Could this have anything to do with the cause?

Scrap the above - take a look at this stie: http://johndoesdesign.com/blog/2012/php/getting-your-php-html-email-to-render-in-gmail/

It appears the cause is the "\r\n" - use just "\n" instead. Why this would just start happening out of the blue - something must have changed gmail's end. I've tried this and solved the issue for me. Hope it does for you.

Thomas
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I hope this could help u

Send email using the GMail SMTP server from a PHP page

and like Lawrence said, accept your questions so ppl could answer faster and better

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Eduardo Iglesias
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    I'm not using any libraries, just using the mail() command and I would like to keep doing it that way if that's still possible to send html emails to gmail accounts that way. It isn't giving an error. – Curtis Apr 26 '12 at 05:09
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    Hooray for spending time writing code to solve problems that other people have already solved! No, wait. Not hooray. – Quentin Apr 26 '12 at 09:32