mail function

[Arc]

Hi,I have 2 questions about the mail function....

I am using this to send email with PHP..

mail ($mail_to,$mail_subject,$mail_body, "From: $txtFrom\r\nContent-type: text/html");

The Email contains HTML code and the HTML code is not coming out right... it's different than how i designed it when i recieve it as an email. For instance, i sent an email of a table with 4 rows and 1 column.. the background color of the page was white and each cell in the table had a differnt color and the text in each sell was set to Middle or left or right aligned and some bold and some italic etc...

When i received it.. the email background was green and the table was only as big as the text and the cell background and text colors were all different and they were all left aligned etc...

That is 1 of the problems.. The second problem is the FROM Category.

If FROM = Lee Hasley it shows up as "[e-mail]" for example.
If FROM = Lee [e-mail] it shows up as
[e-mail].

Why is it adding the periods where there are spaces and why is it adding "@myserver.sad.com" when i dont put an "@" in the From box?

I want to be albe to have the FROM category only say Lee Hasley not have to put an @.com etc..

Thanks!😃

[Arc]

ANyone have a clue about this? My emails are coming out all wrong... does it have something to with the

Content-type: text/html ?
I also tried

From: $txtFrom\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n

and i get the same wierd results..

Thanks!😃

[arelgee]

My guess is that the code is just making your FROM tag into a valid email address.
About the colors and formatting, I deal with that every day in designing pages for my site. There are many browsers and many more email programs. Some email can't handle html at all.
Is the problem showing up in the same browser? If you view the document before you send it, and then view it after it has been sent and received and it is different, then obviously the probem is in the coding.
rlg

[Arc]

Yah well its wierd, I have pasted the html into outlook and sent it to a friend... when he got it, it did not show the table at all.. just the text, the text was different colors as it should be ad they were aligned left/right/middle as they shjould have been and the background color was white like it was supposed to be, but the table was missing or atleast it wasnt visible.

But when i send the same html code thru my php code and look at it in outlook it comes as a blue background and the table is shrunk to the size of the text and everything is left aligned and all the colors are wrong.

So it's like its sending all the HTML but for some reason the HTML code is not being read correctly... so IMO it is a code problem becasue i am getting 2 different results with the same email program (outlook)..

And i beleive it has to do with The Header info being sent

From: $txtFrom\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n

So does anyone have any code they use that they know works?

And about the FROM deal... Yah i see that it is making into a valid email format... but people send emails all the time and you get the FROM as say "John" not "[e-mail]" so apparently its possible and thats what i want to do.

[Arc]

This is really frustrating, No one has an idea of how to properly format HTML Emails so they come out how you designed them?