Proper way to send mail

[Lorenzo Thurman]

I need a good example of how to send mail using PHP. I've used the
mail() function, but I can't set the Reply-To address using it. Or can
I? So I've been using sendmail instead, but I can't seem to figure out
how to get the username in the header. Something like this:
<first last> fi********@somewhere.com

Escaping the '<>' is the problem. Also, I'd like to know how to validate
the input as this info will come from a web based form on my site and I
want to avoid the spammers.
TIA

[Michael Vilain]

In article <lo***************************@sage.thethurmans.co m>,
Lorenzo Thurman <lo*****@nospamthethurmans.com> wrote:

I need a good example of how to send mail using PHP. I've used the
mail() function, but I can't set the Reply-To address using it. Or can
I? So I've been using sendmail instead, but I can't seem to figure out
how to get the username in the header. Something like this:
<first last> fi********@somewhere.com

Escaping the '<>' is the problem. Also, I'd like to know how to validate
the input as this info will come from a web based form on my site and I
want to avoid the spammers.
TIA

It must be your configuration as I have no problems specifying a "Cc:"
header in my emails.

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[John Dunlop]

Lorenzo Thurman wrote:

I've used the mail() function, but I can't set the Reply-To address
using it. Or can I?
Yes, you can. The mail() docs give examples.
So I've been using sendmail instead, but I can't seem to figure out
how to get the username in the header. Something like this:
<first last> fi********@somewhere.com

Almost. The greater-/less-than signs bracket the address and
not the name. So, for example, to set a single name-addr in
the Reply-To header:

Reply-To: Lorenzo Thurman <lt******@host.invalid>

It's covered in RFC2822 sec. 3.6.2:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822

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Jock

[Geoff Muldoon]

In article <lo***************************@sage.thethurmans.co m>,
lo*****@nospamthethurmans.com says...

I need a good example of how to send mail using PHP. I've used the
mail() function, but I can't set the Reply-To address using it. Or can
I?

http://php.planetmirror.com/manual/e...mail.php#51406

Geoff M