You should consider using a phpPHP mail library such as PHPMailerPHPMailer which would make the procedure to send mail much simpler and better.
Here's an example of how to use PHPMailer, it's really simple!
<?php require_once('../class.phpmailer.php'); $mail = new PHPMailer(); // defaults to using php "mail()" $body = file_get_contents('contents.html'); $body = eregi_replace("[\]",'',$body); $mail->AddReplyTo("[email protected]","First Last"); $mail->SetFrom('[email protected]', 'First Last'); $mail->AddReplyTo("[email protected]","First Last"); $address = "[email protected]"; $mail->AddAddress($address, "John Doe"); $mail->Subject = "PHPMailer Test Subject via mail(), basic"; $mail->AltBody = "To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!"; // optional, comment out and test $mail->MsgHTML($body); $mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer.gif"); // attachment $mail->AddAttachment("images/phpmailer_mini.gif"); // attachment if(!$mail->Send()) { echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo; } else { echo "Message sent!"; } ?> Source: http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/
An alternative to PHPMailer is http://swiftmailer.org/
