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Note Submitter: marcus at synchromedia dot co dot uk ---- I've been helping a lot of people with scripting, and mail() is always a sticking point because no-one seems to be able to get the headers or MIME formatting right with their own code, mainly because you need to read all the RFCs and understand them in order to get it right. The simple answer is, don't bother trying: just use phpmailer instead: http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/ it's a nice tidy PHP class that deals with multipart MIME construction, header and body encodings, and it has a built-in SMTP client too. I really can't recommend it enough - it's worth pretending that the mail() function doesn't exist. The PEAR mail package mentioned in here offers similar improvements in available sleep hours and hair retention.