Re: Mail();

> > Bug in: http://cz.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php > > > > Example 2. Sending mail with extra headers. > > > > mail("nobody@example.com", "the subject", $message, > > "From: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\r\n" > > ."Reply-To: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\r\n" > > ."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion()); > > > > ----------- > > That's not correct mail header (see RFC822, STD3). > > Please quote the section which describes this, I can not find it in the > RFC. > Section 6.1 defines SYNTAX and allows for mailbox to be defined in one of two ways: mailbox = addr-spec ; simple address / phrase route-addr ; name & addr-spec The address format noted in the example is the first one "simple address" which requires that the email address be specified used "addr-spec". addr-spec is defined as: addr-spec = local-part "@" domain ; global address Which does *NOT* include the <> delimiters. They are only required for the second form of mailbox "name & addr-spec" with phrase being the realname portion defined earlier in the document a string containing a limited set of legal charatcers, or a quoted string containing 7-bit characters (exluding control characters). "route-addr" is then defined as: route-addr = "<" [route] addr-spec ">" And this is where we find addr-spec (with optional route syntax) encapsulated in <>s. Bottom line, the example (which contains only an addr-spec with no route or phrase) is correct and in conformance with RFC822. -Sara