mail function works, but not correctly

[nmcglennon]

Ok guys, I am trying to make a function to send people a quick message to their email. Here is the code:

if ($submitemail=="Send")
{  	
$from = "$form_fromemail";
$to = "$form_toemail";
mail($to, $form_subject, $form_message, $from);
}

Pretty simple. Say I am trying to send email through the form from (myself) at [e-mail].

Now here is the wierd part. When the form is processed it seems to change everything. When the message is recieved, the "From:" line reads "[e-mail]" (my server) instead of the "[e-mail]" it is supposed to be. AND the $from variable is appended before the message to the message reads:

"[e-mail]

Lorem ipsum dolor"

instead of :

"Lorem ipsum dolor".

I have never come across anything quite like this before. Is there something I am doing wrong? or is there a way around this?

Thanks in advance...

[LordShryku]

The FROM: needs to be specified. Like this...

if ($submitemail=="Send") {       

    $from = "From: ".$form_fromemail."\r\n";
    $to = $form_toemail;
    mail($to, $form_subject, $form_message, $from); 
}

[nmcglennon]

Worked like a charm. Thanks man.

[drawmack]

WARNING

DO NOT make a script that takes the from and to email addresses from a form field. With a script like this a spammer can write their own script that uses your script to send mass emails with your bandwidth.