Posted by Spartacus on 06/13/07 11:06

Hello,

I know there is lots of information out there and I've taken a look, but
I want to learn how to do this myself. And I'm a beginner here and some
of it I don't understand (so no flames, RTFM or GFGI please ;)

Here's my function:

function send_mail($to_name, $to_email, $from_name, $from_email,
$subject, $message)
{
$thedate = date("r", time());

$headers = "X-Mailer: PHPMailProgram/1.0\n";
$headers .= "From: \"".$from_name."\" <".$from_email.">\n";
$headers .= "Date: $thedate\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";

$from = "\".$from_name."\" <".$from_email.">";

return mail( $from, $subject, $message, $headers);
}

My problem is that it will never arrive with the "Name" <email address>,
and I can only make it work using email addresses without the names or
the angle brackets around the email addresses. Once I tried printing the
headers and the quotes and angle brackets turned up, but no names or
email addresses. And once an email arrived but with nothing but angle
brackets! (I wonder how that happened? The SMTP server must have
stripped things out perhaps?)

Thanks for your time in helping me with this,

Spartacus

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