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[Federico Ulfo]

That problem happened to me sometimes ago and I remember that was some bug
of phpmailer, the best way to solve is to send email to yourself and debug
line-by-line.
-Federico

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Rukbat <rukbatsramblings at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Are you using a debugger (you should be).  Echo the email body into your
> debugger (not with echo statements, with whatever your debugger uses).  If
> that doesn't give you a clue, write a little character_to_hex function and
> use that to sent the text to the debugger.  It's getting into the email
> somewhere (I assume you've tried different email clients to eliminate a
> buggy client as the problem), so debugging the body text should show you
> the bad text.  Then debug further back, one step at a time, and you should
> be able to find the line before the text gets corrupted and the line
> after.  That's where the corruption is occurring.
>
> (If you've already done all that and still haven't found it, ignore me.)
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have a script that gets some text out of a MySQL table and sends it in
> the message body via the mail function.  Some of the emails are coming
> through with an exclamation point followed by the text being moved to a new
> line.
>
> I'm not sure where this ! and \n are coming from.  When I view the text in
> mysql, it's clean, there is no ! or \n.  If I output to the browser with
> nl2br(), there is no ! or <br>.
>
> I've done some searching and haven't found any helpful info so I'm
> appealing to you all.  Has anyone seen behavior like this, or have a
> recommendation for what I can do to diagnose or fix the problem?
>
> I have a number of rows in the table.  Some of the them come through clean
> on the email, and two come through with this mystery ! and line break.
> I've had the emails go to different accounts and viewed via client or
> browser, and that doesn't make a difference.
>
> Thoughts?  Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Aaron
>
>
>
>
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