Posted by J.O. Aho on 11/24/05 08:37

Stefan Mueller wrote:
>>> If I use
>>> $headers .= "From: user@inter.net\n";
>>> instead of
>>> $headers .= "From: \"User\" <user@inter.net>\n";
>>> is works perfect.
>> &lt; and &gt; is only used to display < and > on a HTML page and not in
>> the
>> From: or To: in mail().
>>
>> so if you want to display the "header" variable and use it in your mail(),
>> then you need to use a function like eregi_replace to transform the < and
>> > to
>> &lt; and &gt; if you want to display the whole string.
>
> Wow, that makes sense.
> I don't want to display $headers I just like to send a mail. Therefore I
> tried
> $headers .= "From: \"User\" <user@inter.net>";
> or
>
> $headers .= "From: 'User' <user@inter.net>";
> or
>
> $headers .= "From: User <user@inter.net>";
> or
>
> $headers .= 'From: "User" <user@inter.net>';
>
> However, no version works.
>
> Does someone see what's still wrong?

$headers .="From: User <user@inter.net>\r\n";

For each line in the header you need \r\n, so that the MTA will know where
something ends.


//Aho

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