我在PHP邮件中遇到标题问题

Question

I am having a problem getting the header to work in the mail PHP. It is actually a contact form and the "From" parameter is essential. Here is part of the code:

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
    $headers .= "From: " . $name . " <".$from.">\r\n";



        // If there are no errors, send the email
        if (!$errName && !$errEmail && !$errMessage && !$errVerify ) {
        $success = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

            // redirect to success page 
            if ($success){
              $result='<div style="margin-top:20px" class="alert alert-success">Thank you for contacting us. We will get back to you as soon as possible.</div>';
            }
            else{
              $result='<div style="margin-top:20px" class="alert alert-success">There was a problem.</div>';
            }
        }

However, this will only print out the result as unsuccessful. But when I remove the header from mail(), the email gets sent successfully.

Answer 1

I think you don't need the MIME-Version. Try with something like this:

    $headers = "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n";        
    $headers .= "From: ".$name."\n";

Anyway sending mails is more complex than it seems, as for example some servers only accept \\n instead of \\r\\n. It is usualy much better to use robust libraries like phpmailer or swiftmail.