mail() problems!

[Anon]

Heya guys,

I'm kinda new to php, and I'm trying to get the mail() function working properly. Let me start by supplying some code:

<?php
$to = "[e-mail]";
$from = "from: <email address>";
$subject = "test using the mail function 2nd attempt!";
$msg = "test email";
$mailheaders = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
mail ($to, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders, $from);
?>

Now, what happens is the email gets sent to the $from address. However, when reading the email, it says that the To: address is the one at $to. Also, the From: address is set to [e-mail].

This is really annoying me! Any help would be appreciated. For the record, the server is running Linux. Thanks in advance!

Stu

[Anon]

What are you using this for. Technically the mail is from the server and this address is set in your apache config file. It can be changed to you@youraddress there. Though if you're building an email provider, I'm not quite sure how to override this.

[Anon]

I'm using it for confirmation at registration, and various other auto-emailling stuff on a site I'm building. From what I've read, the from address should be able to be changed in the manner I attempted in my first post. Ho hum

Stu

[Anon]

Try concatenating the $from variable to $mailheaders instead of separating with commas: "..., $mailheaders.$from"