Confused about & in emails

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:19 pm

I have implemented a "send event to friend" feature in GCalendar, similar to "send this story to a friend" in the News module.

I send the link just like the RN2.10 News module does; meaning I put in a plain text email my link back to my site, complete with the &'s in the link converted to &.

This seems to work with gmail and Yahoo mail. But I had a user complain about the & characters. Is this mail client program specific? Would it be better to un-htmlentity'ize the & characters for the email?

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:37 pm

text email: &
html email: &

the html email must have the content-type: text/html
the text email must have the content-type: text/plain

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:59 pm

Ah that makes sense, thanks. By default I assume the PHP mail function sends text/plain? And you would have to specify your own header to make it text/html?

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:48 am

yes