Posted by SC on 11/24/05 02:54

Don't use &lt; and &gt;. Use the actual characters < and >.


"Stefan Mueller" <seekware-remove-@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I can't send a mail with the following mail header:
> $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
> $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
> $headers .= "From: \"User\" &lt;user@inter.net&gt;\n";
>
> Therefore $headers is set to (echo $header;)
> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 From:
> "User" <user@inter.net>
>
> The mail has not been delivered and my PHP server says:
> [24-Nov-2005 00:37:19] PHP Warning: mail() [<a
> href='function.mail'>function.mail</a>]: SMTP server response: 501 5.5.4
> Invalid Address in C:\PHP\file.php on line 132
>
>
> If I use
> $headers .= "From: user@inter.net\n";
> instead of
> $headers .= "From: \"User\" &lt;user@inter.net&gt;\n";
> is works perfect.
>
> What's wrong?
> Stefan
>
>

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