Mail function

[Tim_Christopher]

I'd like to send an email using the php mail function but am unsure on what text to include for the To name.

Note: The to parameter should not be an address in the form of "Something <[e-mail]>". The mail command may not parse this properly while talking with the MTA (Particularly under Windows).
Source: http://www.zend.com/manual/function.mail.php

If I follow what that article says and use a line like:

$emailTo = 'To: '.$toName.' <'.$toAddress.'>'

When receiving the email in Outlook Express the To field reads 'To <name>' when surely I just want it to read '<name>'.

Can someone let me know how I can get around this problem, or do I just ignore the article?

[paulnaj]

Two things ...

1) The quote from Zend says DON'T do "Something <Something>", because it might be parsed incorrectly by the server.
2) I can't see anywhere on the manual reference where it says to include the "To: " bit at the front. I think you're getting confused with the format of the 'EXTRA headers' parameter.

Standard usage:

$to = "[e-mail]"
$subject = "Subject";
$message = "Blah, Blah";
$extra = "From: webmaster@".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], 
mail($to, $subject, $message, $extra);

[Tim_Christopher]

That would show the email being sent to "[e-mail]". I want the email to be shown as sent to "Mr F Blogs"

[paulnaj]

Oh, I see ...

Try this ...

$to = "[e-mail]"
$subject = "Subject";
$message = "Blah, Blah";
$extra = "To: Mr. F Bloggs <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$extra .= "From: webmaster@".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
mail($to, $subject, $message, $extra);