Sending html and css mails to gmail with Swift Mailer

Question

I have some basic html and some css but for some reason gmail puts 3D infornt the 'text/css'

Code sample

$message = "
            <style type='text/css'>
              #main {border:1px solid red;}
            </style>

              <div id='main'>some text</div>
";

But when I view the original send to the gmail

<style type=3D'text/css'>

and maybe thats why the mail is not styled. I am using the swift mailer

// also in html

<div id=3D'main'>

// swift mailer

    $type = $message->getHeaders()->get('Content-Type');
    $type->setValue('text/html');
    $type->setParameter('charset', 'utf-8');

Answer 1

From what I know gmail doesnt support style tag in head or in body. I use style attributes for elements when sending email.

Answer 2

to let swift mailer send message in HTML format, even for gmail , because swift mailer escape html tags to its represented characters , so you need to write these lines this way:

$message = (new Swift_Message('Message Subject HERE '))
        ->setFrom(array('sender email' => 'Sender Name')) // can be $_POST['email'] etc...
        ->setTo(array('reciever email' => 'Receiver Name')) // your email / multiple supported.
        ->setEncoder( new Swift_Mime_ContentEncoder_PlainContentEncoder('8bit'))
        ->setBody($template, "text/html");

after that every thing should work fine the trick here is to till swift mailer to use Swift mailler MimeType class and point to the correct encoding . you can check here for more information link here

Answer 3

Swift Mailer is trying to escape " to \". You have to use setEncoder() before setBody():

$message->setEncoder(Swift_Encoding::get8BitEncoding());
$message->setBody($body, "text/html");