Posted by J.O. Aho on 11/24/05 02:34
Stefan Mueller wrote:
> But I still have the problem that 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\" <user@inter.net>\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\" <user@inter.net>\n";
> is works perfect.
< and > 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
< and > if you want to display the whole string.
//Aho
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