Email sending problem

[Active-web]

hey everybody!

I'm a web designer and totally new to PHP and this forum.
For my project I made a form using flash and a php file to send the email.
This is my first attempt on PHP and my script works but it sends the variables totally wrong into the mailbox.
I tried everything to make it work and it is driving me crazy!!! :queasy:

The form has to send my vars from flash to my own mailbox and the mailbox of the user whos mailing me.

I faced some problems:

1. Some mail clients see this as spam and put it into the unwished email folder so nobody will see this mail.

2. As you can see below the message shows an email addres from the host and i'd like to change that into my own.

3. I dont really think this is a safe code to send the mail cause i dont really like to get my inbox full of spam

4. You can see when looking at the code below and looking to the message i miss some information in the mail! It doesnt send the first 4 vars into the message!

Please help me out and I hope to get some explanation with it to understand it in the future!

Greetings
Leen

Message:

Van: <[e-mail]>
Verzonden: donderdag 8 december 2005 10:27:35
Aan: [e-mail]

Onderwerp: Gaswacht Service abonnement

Tel. nr.: 2312313

Merk: qweqwe
Type: qweqweqweqweqwwqeqqew
Bouwjaar: 1985
Abonnement: Mechanische ventilatie box - Incl.
Abonnement extra: Mechanische ventilatie box - Excl.
Ingangsdatum: 26/12/2005

Betaalmethode: Elk jaar vooraf betalen.
Bank/giro nr.:

Opmerkingen: eqweqwe

[e-mail]

<?php

$sendTo = "[e-mail]";
$cc= $_POST["email"];
$subject = "Gaswacht Service abonnement";


$headers = "Van: " .$_POST["email"]."<" . $_POST["email"] .">\r\n";
$headers .= "Antwoord naar: " . $_POST["email"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Terugkeren: " . $_POST["email"];

$message .= "Naam: ".$_POST["naam"]."\n";
$message .= "Adres: ".$_POST["adres"]."\n";
$message .= "Postcode: ".$_POST["postcode"]."\n";
$message .= "Woonplaats: ".$_POST["woonplaats"]."\n";
$message .= "Tel. nr.: ".$_POST["telefoon"]."\n";
$message .= "\n";
$message .= "Merk: ".$_POST["merk"]."\n";
$message .= "Type: ".$_POST["type1"]."\n";
$message .= "Bouwjaar: ".$_POST["bouwjaar"]."\n";
$message .= "Abonnement: ".$_POST["abonnement"]."\n";
$message .= "Abonnement extra: ".$_POST["extra"]."\n";
$message .= "Ingangsdatum: ".$_POST["ingang"]."\n";
$message .= "\n";
$message .= "Betaalmethode: ".$_POST["choice"]."\n";
$message .= "Bank/giro nr.: ".$_POST["giro"]."\n";
$message .= "\n";
$message .= "Opmerkingen: ".$_POST["opmerkingen"]."\n";

mail($sendTo, $subject, $cc, $message, $headers);

print "&success=1&"

?>

[Roger_Ramjet]

Have a search of thiese forums and you will find this question asked and answered many, many times.

:hints:

sendmail uses the default email address listed in php config files
email messages need to be properly encoded, and php has functions to do that for you
you overcome most email problems with additional headers

[Installer]

Roger's advice is the best. Search, and also read thoroughly the mail doucumentation and user notes at php.net

Here are some more "hints". 🙂

I think you have the parameters for "mail()" wrong; it should be "mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers)". Concatenate the "$cc" into "$headers":

$headers .= 'Cc: ' . $_POST['email'] . "\r\n";

I'm told some filters will mark as spam, or some servers won't accept, mail that has no "Message-ID:" line. Try adding this (with the appropriate translations, of course) to "$headers":

$from_arr = explode('@', $_POST['email']);
$server   = $from_arr[count($from_arr) - 1];
$msg_id   = uniqid('') . '@mail.' . $server;
$headers .= 'Message-ID: ' . '<' . $msg_id . '>' . "\r\n";

Be sure to put two "\r\n" at the end of the headers.