mail() with commas

[devinemke]

is there an escape character for commas in mail to: and from: fields? when I try to send mail and the from: field contains a comma (for example: 'Joe Smith, Jr. <[e-mail]>') things get screwed up because the comma is the delimiter for multiple addresses.

[elacdude]

i dont know if this will work, but try a forward slash infront of the comma /

[devinemke]

that doesn't seem to work

[Osiris_Beato]

Originally posted by devinemke
that doesn't seem to work

I suggest a back slash \, or you can use double quotes instead of single quotes.

I didn't try, just a suggestion.

Regards,

Osiris Beato

[bobthedog]

Well - I reckon you got 2 possible options.

I haven't got round to trying each of these yet, but I have done quite a lot of work around encoding and decoding mime mails so have faith! 🙂

Ya first option is to quote the name i.e.

"Joe Smith, Jr." <[e-mail]>

This should definetly work since I believe it is in the mail headers rfc doc.

Your second option is to encode the name using quoted printable encoding. PHP has some functions for this but I think you need the IMAP extensions in order to get to the function. This seems to be the route that companies like Yahoo take.

Anyhow - the simplest option is the first one and should solve all your problems 🙂

[devinemke]

thanks bobthedog, this works perfectly:

$mail_test = mail ('"Joe Smith, Jr." <[e-mail]>', 'comma test', 'comma test', 'From: "Jane Doe, Sr." <[e-mail]>');
if ($mail_test) {echo 'OK';} else {echo 'FAIL';}