mail question

[kathrync]

I have created a contact form with a php script and grabbed the fields from the form. I checked and the proper data was being sent.

But, when I go to send an email with the data collected from that form (including the user's email address), the email that comes to me will say "nobody" in the reply to field which is not what I want.

$mailto = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Comments From Web Contact Form";
$replyto = $sEmailAddress;

mail ($mailto, $subject, $sTemp, $replyto );

But I did notice that the $replyto field was appearing in the body of my message before the contents of $sTemp which was the body of my email.

[jerdo]

First you should read this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
The manual is full of amazing information. Second here is a little snip of code from the above linked page, that should show you the proper way to use the mail function:

mail("[e-mail]", "the subject", $message,
     "From: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\r\n"
    ."Reply-To: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\r\n"
    ."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());

[showman]

And if you run into any problems with your email headers showing up in the body of the arriving email, you can remove the \r and replace it with the <br>

Don't know why it caused a problem but it did for hundreds of email recipients from my script, and that cured it..

mail("$to_addr", "Subject Line", $body,
       "From: $admin_email<br>\n"
     . "Reply-To:$admin_email<br>\n"
     . "X-mailer:PHP/" . phpversion());

Maybe someone here could explain it to me..

thanks
doug