Question

I am using PHPMailer to send HTML emails. I first set the HTML body of the email using HTML and PHP variables after first calling ob_start.

Here’s my code:

<?php

ob_start();
?>

..... a bunch of VALID HTML

<?
$body = ob_get_contents();

require_once('class.phpmailer.php');

// Send to Me
$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch
$mail->IsSendmail(); // telling the class to use SendMail transport

try {
    $mail->AddReplyTo('[e-mail]', 'Company Name');
    $mail->AddAddress('[e-mail]', 'My Name');
    $mail->SetFrom('[e-mail]', 'Company Name');
    $mail->Subject  =  "Contact Form Confirmation";
    $mail->AltBody    = "This is a contact form submitted through the main website.";
    $mail->WordWrap   =  50; // set word wrap   
    $mail->Body = $body;
    $mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML

    $mail->Send(); // Try to send email

    } catch (phpmailerException $e) {
        echo $e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        echo $e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!
}
// end try

For some reason, this line:

$mail->Body = $body;

causes the email not to send. If I replace it with:

$mail->Body = "This is a test email.";

the email sends perfectly.

If my HTML contained within $body is just a valid HTML page with CSS in the head, and no Javascript or anything, why won’t the email send?

Is there another way to do this? Please help!!

Answer 1

Turns out, for some reason, the emails were not sending if they contained a fax number. Totally strange. I tested my entire markup, and after ONLY removing a 10 digit phone number, the emails finally went through. I’m not a newbie – literally that’s the only text I removed and the emails sent fine.

HAS ANYONE SEEN THIS BEFORE??