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PHP mail script not sending in HTML format

I have a PHP script that receives some incoming POST data to build a message. The message is sending, but not in HTML format. I receive the HTML code as text in the message, rather than an HTML-encoded mail message. I got most of this code from php.net, is there something I'm not doing quite right?

<?php

	$recipient=$_POST['recipient'];
	$subject=$_POST['subject'];
	$msg='<html><head><title>Liever, Hyman & Potter</head></html><body>' . $_POST['msg'] . '</body></html>';
	$headers='MIME-Version: 1.0' . '\r\n' . 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . '\r\n' . 'From:' . $_POST['sender'];

	mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $sender);
	echo 'Mail Sent.';

?>

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Marco Gasi

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Brad Bansner

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Thanks for your help. Yes, the quotes were part of the problem. I also put $sender in the mail command when I should have put $header. AND I was missing the closing </title> tag. Sorry, that was really sloppy... I normally program in ASP so PHP isn't my thing. Thank you!

Dave Baldwin

First, you not sending the 'headers'. On http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php , it shows the proper format to be: mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Second, your message format is not correct or complete for 'proper' HTML Multipart email.

@marqusG's suggestion to use PHPMailer is a good idea though the current page for it is http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/downloads/list