I’ve seen a lot of examples using the php mail function. Some of them use rn as line break for the header, some use n.
$headers = "From: Just Men"; $headers .= "Reply-To: Just me <$email>n";
vs
$headers = "From: Just Mern"; $headers .= "Reply-To: Just me <$email>rn";
which one is correct?
Sometimes I’ve had cases where rn is used and part of the header is interpreted by some email clients as mail text (losing these header information) – is this because rn is wrong?
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Answer
The CRLF rn
, should be used according to the php documentation. Also, to conform to the RFC 2822 spec lines must be delimited by the carriage return character, CR r
immediately followed by the line feed, LF n
.
Since rn
is native to Windows platforms and n
to Unix, you can use the PHP_EOL
Docs constant on Windows, which is the appropriate new line character for the platform the script is currently running on.