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Bug #17801 $header can only contain header data, multilpe newlines are ignored
Submitted: 2002-06-17 10:52 UTC Modified: 2002-06-19 05:30 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:4.5 ± 0.5
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:1 (50.0%)
From: gabinunde at yahoo dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Mail related
PHP Version: CVS OS: W98, NT
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-06-17 10:52 UTC] gabinunde at yahoo dot de 
On W98 and NT (Apache 2.0.35, PHP(as CGI) 4.1.1 and 4.2.1 tested) there is a problem sending multipart-mails:

mail($to,$subject,"",$header);

$header has been created like at http://phpwizard.net/resources/phpMisc/scripts/pretty/mail.php3 

Until the lenght of $header is <= 4012 byte everything is working fine. Obove that limit PHP.EXE crashes (drwtsn32.log) and Apache reports: "Premature end of script headers...".

Thanks Gabi

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 [2002-06-17 11:06 UTC] edink@php.net 
Several mail() problems have been fixed in the latest CVS version of PHP. Could you please try the latest non stable snapshot from http://snaps.php.net/win32/
 [2002-06-18 06:38 UTC] gabinunde at yahoo dot de 
First I tryed "php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip" with PHP 4.2.2 as CGI and as module, but the same error accured with mail().

After I tryed "php4-win32-latest.zip" with PHP 4.3.0:
-Apache works with this version only as module, not as CGI.
-Now I can send mails with $header>4012 Byte, but the plain text of the message-body as well as the attachment are received as they were headers!!!!!!!! In the source-text of the received mail message and attachment are shown in bold like all the headers (From, To, Content-Type ect...). So one can't read the message and the attachment has 0 byte.
I could send an example of such a mail.

Gabi
 [2002-06-18 07:01 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
Please send a script, which tries to send mail with the mail() function and produces failure output directly to me mfischer@php.net as I'm likely the one who fucked this up, thx.
 [2002-06-18 13:15 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
Now that you sent me your script, I reflected the problem in the summary. The change was requested to many MTA problems which don' deal well with not-well-formed $headers.

So the current (CVS HEAD) behaviour is: Make sure whatever it is (\r, \n or \r\n) it's always \r\n (which IS required for sending over SMTP which is the case for win32) and also removing multiple \r\n occurences because they would break the header. You seem to have been used this behaviour (which isn't documented).

This can be fixed in user-space by crafting the $header carefully i.e. know where to stop and putting the rest in the $body.

I can't say anything about the BC impact here (I haven't got much feedback since the rewrite, but I think I should be happy what I got), but it seems it shouldn't be ignored.

I'm soon at the point were I'ld say I revert every change to mail() and create win32_mail_rfc_compliant() .. ;)
 [2002-06-19 05:30 UTC] gabinunde at yahoo dot de 
On win32 never put message and/or attachments in the mail-header!
 
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