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Asked: 2026-05-25T06:08:37+00:00

I’m trying to send an HTML formatted e-mail with one attachment. I’ve received the

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I’m trying to send an HTML formatted e-mail with one attachment. I’ve received the e-mail, and the attachment is there, but the e-mail client does not show the formatted HTML. Instead, it shows the HTML as: <html><p>Header etc. Below is the original e-mail (dump from Gmail, made anonymous):

Delivered-To: test@testnet.com
Received: by 10.151.41.4 with SMTP id t4cs11883ybj;
        Thu, 1 Sep 2011 03:39:49 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.213.32.12 with SMTP id a12mr14455ebd.25.1314873588419;
        Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:39:48 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <myaccount@server46.emailerserver.nl>
Received: from server46.emailerserver.nl (server46.emailerserver.nl [91.94.224.162])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i29si371474eei.99.2011.09.01.03.39.47
        (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);
        Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:39:47 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of myaccount@server46.emailerserver.nl designates 91.94.224.162 as permitted sender) client-ip=91.94.224.162;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of myaccount@server46.emailerserver.nl designates 91.94.224.162 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=myaccount@server46.emailerserver.nl
Received: from server46.emailerserver.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1])
    by server46.emailerserver.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p81Adk3n031256
    (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT)
    for <test@testnet.com>; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:39:46 +0200
Received: (from myaccount@localhost)
    by server46.emailerserver.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id p81Adk6H031255;
    Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:39:46 +0200
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:39:46 +0200
Message-Id: <201109011039.p81Adk6H031255@server46.emailerserver.nl>
To: test@testnet.com
Subject: easyfit - ref: Giling, Monique
X-PHP-Script: www.testserver.nl/emailer/upload2.php for 214.84.68.162
From: "sender@mynet.com" <sender@mynet.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="5a9be80f0926fcc0a9903df316874b01"
Content-Disposition:  attachment
Content-type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new


This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--5a9be80f0926fcc0a9903df316874b01
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<html><head></head><body><h2>easyfit bestelling</h2><p><i>Datum: donderdag 1 september 2011</i></p><h3><p>Van</p></h3><p>TEST ()<br>12<br>1<br>1, 1<br>1<br>sender@mynet.com<br></p><p><h3>Bestelling</h3></p><table><tr><td width="250" colspan="2"><b>Indivisual (R)</b></td><td width="250" colspan="2"><b>Indivisual (L)</b></td></tr><tr><td><i>Materiaal</i></td><td>Silicone hydrogel</td><td><i>Materiaal</i></td><td>Silicone hydrogel</td></tr><tr><td><i>Radius</i></td><td>8,30</td><td><i>Radius</i></td><td>8,30</td></tr><tr><td><i>Sterkte</i></td><td>+1,00</td><td><i>Sterkte</i></td><td>+1,00</td></tr><tr><td><i>Diameter</i></td><td>14,00</td><td><i>Diameter</i></td><td>14,00</td></tr><tr><td><i>Aantal</i></td><td>1 (3 maanden)</td><td><i>Aantal</i></td><td>1 (3 maanden)</td></tr></tr></table><p>Referentie: Giling, Monique<br>Opmerkingen: asdsd<br></p><br><br><br><p><i>------------------------------------<br>easyfit 2.620 / ComputerCode=43C3-427F-4457-35F6-3F0D / OrderId=7a797654-58a1-4!
 7f9-bd66-417562423de6</i></p></body></html>
--5a9be80f0926fcc0a9903df316874b01
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=MenOrder.xml;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-disposition: attachment

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have two Content-Type headers, the first is the correct one, it tells that the body contains multiple parts.

    The second should be on the HTML part:

    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"

<html>…
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