Posted by Carl on 12/13/06 23:53

A.Translator wrote:
> As I am just beginning to learn php I had to fish a free form script from the
> web. The script works fine, it processes the data filled in, including the
> sender's email address and sends an email to me with the data.
>
> When I hit the reply-button in my default email client (TheBat!), all is well
> and a new email with the sender's address in the to: - field is generated.
>
> But when that same email is opened in Outlook Express, and I hit the reply-to
> button, the to: field only shows the name of the sender, not the full email
> address (it does appear in the body of the message though).
>
> What do I have to change so that someone using OE can just hirt the reply
> button to respond to an email generated by the form?
>
>> message cut <<
>
> mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper, "From: \"$email\" <$email>\r\nReply-To:
> \"$name\" <$email>\r\nX-Mailer: chfeedback.php 2.04" );
> header( "Location: $thankyouurl" );
> exit ;
>
>

Adriana,

I'm not sure this will address your problem, as I don't currently have
access to the mentioned mail clients for testing, but I don't believe
your message headers conform to the "Internet Message Format"
standards.
See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt

The "Reply-To:" field value is expected to be in address-list format,
while you are adding the address in mailbox format. In short, try
sending only the email address as the value to the Reply-To field, not
the name.

Hope that helps,
Carl.

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