Hey All, My apologies in advance if I'm directing this to the wrong location, but I'm about out of ideas. I recently built a small PHP web form to allow individuals to send email updates to our various mailman lists. Everything works quite nicely for non-digest users, but when I tried to configure the script for digest users, things started to get weird. Initially, no matter how many emails I dispatched using the form, the Mailman digest always listed a single topic. In the MIME digest it attached a single message (the first message sent to the list) and in plaintext it appended all the messages sent to the list but still listed as a single message. The headers where all subsequent messages were to start seemed pretty messed up. So I decided to play with the headers a bit and added the line in the php: $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() . "\n"; After that change all digests calculated the number of messages correctly and displayed the headers accurately. Unfortunately, though every thing looks good in digest/plaintext, digest/MIME was acting up. When a MIME digest was received in Outlook, the messages were not attached to the digest. Yet when I sent to a gmail account they appeared below as forwarded messages. Now if I forsake the php form and send MIME email from outlook to the list Outlook correctly creates a multipart/alternative email and the MIME/digest contains appropriate attachments for all messages. Below I list the headers that I'm setting in php, the relevant sections of the plaintext digest with incorrectly counted messages/topics and finally the relevant sections of the plaintext digest with the correct message count. Thanks in advance to anyone who has any thoughts php:

$boundary='--' . md5( uniqid("IsNealAGenius") ); $headers = "From: \"Home Office\" <" . $from. ">\n"; $headers .= "Mime-Version: 1.0\n"; $headers .= "Content-type: multipart/alternative;\n boundary=\"$boundary\"\n X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() . "\n";

$message="\nThis is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n"; $message.="\n\n--$boundary\n"; $message.="Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"\n"; $message.="Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n"; $mail_to = "test_list@here.com"; $message .= strip_tags($test); $message .= "\n\n--$boundary\n"; $message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"us-ascii\"\n"; $message.="Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n"; $message .= $test; mail ($mail_to,"test",$message,$headers); ...................................................................................... plaintext digest 1. Today's Topics:

1. test (Home Office)

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:19:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Home Office" neal@here.com To: test_list@here.com Subject: [Test_list] test Message-ID: 20050921141936.AF158524114@mail.here.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="--274280a87c2f32840e53791334dfb49f" MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: list Message: 1

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

----274280a87c2f32840e53791334dfb49f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<stripped HTML here.>

----274280a87c2f32840e53791334dfb49f Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<Real HTML here>

----274280a87c2f32840e53791334dfb49f--

From apache@here.com Wed Sep 21 10:19:51 2005 Return-Path: apache@here.com X-Original-To: test_list@here.com Delivered-To: test_list@here.com Received: by mail.here.com <http://mail.here.com> (Postfix, from userid 48) id 0952E52406B; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:19:51 -0400 (EDT) To: test_list@here.com From: "Home Office" neal@here.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="--921e4b971d970fe077e26dadad939251" Message-Id: 20050921141951.0952E52406B@mail.here.com Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:19:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Test_list] test X-BeenThere: test_list@here.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Test list to work out bugs <test_list.here.com> List-Unsubscribe: <*http://www.here.com/mailman/listinfo/test_list*<http://www.here.com/mailman/listinfo/test_list> , <*mailto:test_list-request@here.com?subject=unsubscribe*<test_list-request@here.com?subject=unsubscribe>

List-Archive: </heremail> List-Post: <*mailto:test_list@here.com* <test_list@here.com>> List-Help: <*mailto:test_list-request@here.com?subject=help*<test_list-request@here.com?subject=help>

List-Subscribe: <*http://www.here.com/mailman/listinfo/test_list*<http://www.here.com/mailman/listinfo/test_list>

, <*mailto:test_list-request@here?subject=subscribe*<test_list-request@here?subject=subscribe>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

----921e4b971d970fe077e26dadad939251 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit .....

<Rest of message>

............................................................

plaintext digest #2:

Today's Topics:

1. test (Home Office)
2. test (Home Office)
3. test (Home Office)

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:56:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Home Office" neal@here.com To: test_list@here.com Subject: [Test_list] test Message-ID: 20050921135642.7C15B52406B@mail.here.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="--c9dff2da6d2e9942c846b891d664122e" X-Mailer: PHP/4.3.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: list Message: 1

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

----c9dff2da6d2e9942c846b891d664122e Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<Plain text here>

----d9d51c58d8acd322402f930ba7754354 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<HTML here>

----01f73f678c4ca55f470d0225d6131bb2

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:28:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Home Office" neal@here.com To: test_list@here.com Subject: [Test_list] test Message-ID: 20050921172837.6110952406B@mail.here.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="--7cdc89be99811720df8db7a5ddb7bc0e" X-Mailer: PHP/4.3.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: list Message: 2

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

----7cdc89be99811720df8db7a5ddb7bc0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<rest of message>