PHP Documentation - Re: phpdoc /en/reference/mail/functions mail.xml

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Re: phpdoc /en/reference/mail/functions mail.xml

Aidan Lister

2005-04-29, 3:57 am

> You must use <literal>\r\n</literal> to separate headers, although
> - some Unix mail transfer agents may work with just a single newline
> - (<literal>\n</literal> ).
> + some Unix mail transfer agents replace <literal>\n</literal> by
> + <literal>\r\n</literal> automatically (leads to doubling
> + <literal>\r</literal> if <literal>\r\n</literal> is used).

The problem with this is \n is wrong, and \r\n is right. If you're a new
user, and you read the above, what would you use? I'd most certainly use \n,
which is exactly what we don't want, right?

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