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php mail not nice FROM

I'm trying to set up a PHP Mail to send using a nice FROM email address.
I think I coded it correctly but it's not working. I'm still getting the default server email

  mail( $email,"Thanks for choosing Donatecar.TV", $bodyDonor ,  "From: DonateCar.TV <donatecarcs@***.com>\n" . 
    "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" . 
    "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");

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rivkamak

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Can it be something not set up properly in the PHP.INI file?

Dave Baldwin

Not likely if it is sending mail at all.

F P

Ummm.... Many things wrong with your code. Do this:

$subject = "Thanks for choosing Donatecar.TV";

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "MIME-Version: 1.0";
$headers[] = "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1";
$headers[] = "From: DonateCar.TV <donatecarcs@***.com>";
$headers[] = "Reply-To: DonateCar.TV <donatecarcs@***.com>";
$headers[] = "Subject: {$subject}";
$headers[] = "X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion();

// Mail it
mail($email, $subject, $bodyDonor, implode("\r\n", $headers));

F P

By the by, the reason it didn't work is most likely because of your line endings. If you happened to connect with a Windows machine anywhere in route, the commands would've failed and errored. It's probably in a log file on the system if you care.

Try using the easy method in the future, since I don't think gmail will accept these with the way it's written...

PHPMailer http://phpmailer.worxware.com/