send mail from php - charset encoding

Question

I am sending an automated mail,written in Greek, from a php script. I tried:

 $headers  = \"MIME-Version: 1.0\\r\\n\";
$headers .= \"Content-type: text/plain         


        

Answer 1

All email headers, which includes the subject, need to be pure ASCII, you cannot use UTF-8 or other encodings directly in email headers. Some mail services may be able to detect other encodings and do the right thing, but it's not technically valid. Encode your headers using MIME encoding, see How to use special characters in recipients name when using PHP's mail function.