Question

When sending an HTML e-mail, is there any sense in using the <title> tag? In the PHP Manual, for instance, they use such a tag in their main sample code. However, I see no reason why an e-mail client would use this title and not the Subject from the e-mail. Is there any reason to set this tag?

Answer 1

I’ve been looking into this myself as I’m writing a PHP mailing list manager script that uses the sendmail() function.

The script allows the admin to create and send multiform emails (both text and html versions).

After much testing I have found that some email servers appear to have issues with the title tag (<title></title>).

I created a test email and sent it to 5 of my email address, my @blueyonder.co.uk email failed to arrive but the 4 others had no problems.

After a process of elimination it turned out that the @blueyonder.co.uk mail servers did not like the title tags in the html part of the email message, when I removed the tag the email arrived no probs.

Very strange!