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GMAIL shows message clipped when using file_get_contents

I have switched to using an HTML template when sending email using PHPmailer. After doing so I receive a message within GMAIL stating [Message clipped] View entire message

In troubleshooting I have tried deleting the contents of the HTML template file so that it is blank, but still receive the clipped message. However, if I copy the HTML template code directly in to $mail->MsgHTML(''); and don't use file_get_contents I do not receive that the message was clipped. This leads me to believe something within the file_get_contents is causing the issue?

I should add that there isn't anything actually being clipped from the email when the message is displayed.

$message = file_get_contents('path_to_HTML_template'); 
$mail->MsgHTML($message);
$mail->send();
Solution

  • UPDATE

    Apparently I needed to convert the template to HTML-ENTITIES before sending:

    $message = mb_convert_encoding($message, 'HTML-ENTITIES', "UTF-8");

    UPDATE 2

    And the reason I was having to use mb_convert_encoding was due to a BOM (byte order mark) in my HTML template file. After removing this I no longer have to convert the template.