I got the mail form blues! HTML/POST/mail() question - Also request for style suggestions

Hi! I have an html string stored in $message. I "submit" the form to a subroutine and the value in $message is lost. All the other variables come into feedback.php just fine. I would love any help. This is a new language for me so any suggestions for streamlining my code would also be much appreciated. Thanks -- Monique. Here's my code: <?php $message=getmsg($message,$recemail,$sendername,$mailmessage,$rsList,$rname); mysql_free_result($rsList); echo $message; // this displays perfectly ?> <form name="maillist" method="post" action="<?php echo "feedback.php"; ?>"> <div align="right"> <input name="email" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $email; ?>"> <input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="<?php echo $recipient; ?>"> <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="<?php echo $redirect; ?>"> <input type="hidden" name="name" value="<?php echo $rname; ?>"> <input type="hidden" name="env_report" value="on"> <input type="hidden" name="message" value="<?php $message; ?>"> <input type="hidden" name="subject" size="40" value="<?php echo $subject; ?>" class="form"> <input type="hidden" name="required" value="Name,Email,Subject,Updates,Message"> </div> <div align="right"> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send!"> </div> </form>