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Asked: 2026-05-16T22:06:22+00:00

I am using MAMP (LAMP stack development environment) to send emails using PHP. The

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I am using MAMP (LAMP stack development environment) to send emails using PHP.

The code is below:

$out_message = '
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>You have requested an appointment with the Smile Zone</title>
</head>

<body>
<p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Dear '.$details_name.'</strong></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You have requested an appointment!</p>
<p style="padding:10px;"><strong>Please note that this appointment is currently unconfirmed</strong></p>
</body>
</html>
';

//now for the client side:
$out_to = 'john@gmail.com';
$out_subject = 'My Subject';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= "To: John <john@gmail.com> \r\n";
$headers .= 'From: The Smile Zone <noreply@smile-zone.com>' . "\r\n";

$success2 = mail($out_to, $out_subject, $out_message, $headers);

When I send this email and view in Apple Mail, it appears as it should, however in GMail, in the browser all I get is the raw source.

Why is this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have conflicting charsets:

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

    and:

    $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

    Change them to match.

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