0004754: phpmailer sends invalid characters in message body - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0004754	mantisbt	email	public	2004-10-21 08:40	2012-08-26 16:17

Reporter	user_79356	Assigned To	dregad
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	duplicate
Product Version	0.19.0

Summary	0004754: phpmailer sends invalid characters in message body
Description	My setup uses the PHP mail() function for sending mail, PHP 4.3.4 on windows XP. I don't know if this would affect other mail/system configurations. in core/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php, line 223: var $LE = "\n"; MUST be replaced by var $LE = "\r\n";
Additional Information	(Bare LFs in SMTP) http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html
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user_79356 2004-10-21 08:42 reporter ~0008129	The presence of bare LFs in the message body PREVENTS any mail being sent, hence the "major" severity of the bug.

thraxisp 2004-10-22 05:52 reporter ~0008133 Last edited: 2004-10-22 05:54	Can you provide more details on your setup, particularly the mail configuration? Can you try sending mail via a mailer or the built-in mail() function? There seems to be no mention of this problem in the phpmailer archives. edited on: 10-22-04 05:54

user_79356 2004-10-22 06:52 reporter ~0008136	Here's what the phpmailer guys told me: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1051493&group_id=26031&atid=385707 Here's the exact scenario: Mantis is setup to use the local mail() function. Yes, the local mail() function works. Before sending the generated email body to phpmailer, mantis correctly converted single LFs to CRLFs. When I dumped the message as phpmailer would send it, it contained single LFs, added later. The error which the mail() function returned contained this URL: http://cr.yp.to/docs/smtplf.html, and the given change in phpmailer fixed the issue. Probably it is specific to our mailer, although I can't imagine why setting the default value to the one specified by the standart bothers phpmailer guys so much.

thraxisp 2004-10-22 07:25 reporter ~0008138	Could you try the SMTP setting? It may be that your PHP mail() was compiled for Unix mailers. I'm hesitant to make this change because this seems to be the only report of this problem we have.

chq 2005-01-31 02:08 reporter ~0009149	I didn't try other mode than SMTP. My configuration: Windows 2000, Apache 2.0.52 + PHP 5.0.3 (without PEAR) + MySQL 4.1.8 + PHPMyAdmin 2.6.0 pl3 + Openssl 0.9.7e + SQLite 2.8.15. It was installed from XAMPP Lite 1.4.11. http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646

nurikabe 2007-01-03 12:31 reporter ~0013891 Last edited: 2007-01-03 12:33	Had the same problem with Mantis 1.1.0a2. Using a standard install of PHP5 from php.net. Note that calling mail() directly seems to work.