Mail function and php version

Installation Issues
1

I recently switched from php 7.4. to php 8.0 (with KB version 1.2.23). I use a shared hosting from Host-Europe. When I use the “Send task by email” function, I get an email where the text contains raw HTML that is not parsed.

I found out that the email header contains the FROM: and DATE: twice, e.g.

To: "forname surname " <user@domain.tld>
Subject: TEST
Message-ID: <f7f5a1cc4545ae2c2a88a73f6edf0cf4@assets.domain.tld>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:15:57 +0200
From: via Kanboard <noreply@domain.tld>
Reply-To: user@domain.tld
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
From: noreply@domain.tld
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:15:57 +0200

When I switch the php version back, everything is fine. Does anyone know the problem?

Steff

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I found out that some header entries (Date:, From:, Reply-To:, MIME-Version:, Content-Type:, Content-Transfer-Encoding:) have a space character at the first column and this cause the problem.

To: "forname surname " <mailaddress>
Subject: TEST
Message-ID: <messageID>
:warning:Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:15:57 +0200
:warning:From: via Kanboard <mailaddress>
:warning:Reply-To: user@domain.tld
:warning:MIME-Version: 1.0
:warning:Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
:warning:Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
From: noreply@domain.tld
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:15:57 +0200

Where is the header generated?

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3

Problem solved: the PHP constant PHP_EOL has changed between php 7.4. and php 8.x.

kanboard-1.2.23/libs/swiftmailer/classes/Swift/Transport/MailTransport.php

162         if ("\r\n" != PHP_EOL) {
163             // Non-windows (not using SMTP)
164             $headers = str_replace("\r\n", PHP_EOL, $headers);
165             $subject = str_replace("\r\n", PHP_EOL, $subject);
166             $body = str_replace("\r\n", PHP_EOL, $body);
167             $to = str_replace("\r\n", PHP_EOL, $to);
168         } else {

changed to

162         if ("\r\n" != PHP_EOL) {
163             // Non-windows (not using SMTP)
164             $headers = str_replace("\r\n", "\r\n", $headers);
165             $subject = str_replace("\r\n", "\r\n", $subject);
166             $body = str_replace("\r\n", "\r\n", $body);
167             $to = str_replace("\r\n", "\r\n", $to);
168         } else {

Now, the mails will be parsed. This ist as swiftmailer problem, btw. this class marked as deprecated.

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5

Your config looks reasonable. If your Kanboard can reach smtp.163.com, and you have the correct username & password, the mailing should work.

Are you sure that smtp.163.com accepts connection on port 587? My test says no, but on port 25 you’ll get an answer. :wink: It’s up to you to clarify this.

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Hi, good to get your reply again. :blush: I checked the 163 email page and it actually accepts SSL connection. I think that means smtp.163.com accepts connetion on port 587. Is this right?

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Hi, alfredb. I just changed the port from 587 to 465 and the MAIL_SMTP_ENCRYPTION from tls to ssl. Then it works, I received the email successfully. BTW, thanks for your kind advice. :blush:

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