PHP form submission script issue

[THUNDERPOWER]

I have a PHP script that emails me the form the user fills-in on my website. The problem is, when I receive the email, the sender (person who filled in the form) does not get a confirmation email like they should. This is because the sender's name/email end up mixed up.

Example 1:

"[email protected]" is the sender's email. As you can see in the grey square brackets, the email address ends up being mixed up with the sender's name.

This is the script used for Example 1:

<?
       $sfname = $_POST['firstname'];
       $slname = $_POST['lastname'];
       $ssex = $_POST['sex'];
       $semail = $_POST['email'];
       $shome = $_POST['home'];
       $scell = $_POST['cell'];
       $sstreet = $_POST['street'];
       $scity = $_POST['city'];
       $spostcode = $_POST['postcode'];
       $sprovince = $_POST['province'];
       $scountry = $_POST['country'];
       $sposition = $_POST['position'];
       $sheard = $_POST['heard'];
       $scrime = $_POST['crime'];
       $swork = $_POST['work'];
       $sresume = $_POST['resume'];
       $sreference = $_POST['reference'];
       $msg = "First Name: $sfname\nLast name: $slname\nSex: $ssex\nEmail: $semail\nHome Tel: $shome\nCell No: $scell\nStreet: $sstreet\nCity: $scity\nPostcode: $spostcode\nProvince: $sprovince\nCountry: $scountry\nPosition Applied for: $sposition\nHead About us: $sheard\nConvicted of Crime: $scrime\nEntitled to work: $swork\nResume: $sresume\n References: $sreference\n";

$recipient = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Job Application Form";

$mailheaders = "From:$sfname $slname";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To:".$_POST['email'];


mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
header("Location:success.html");
?>

Example 2:

Now, if I change

$mailheaders = "From:$sfname $slname";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To:".$_POST['email'];

from the code above to

$mailheaders .= $_POST['email'];

, I will get this:

As you can see from Example 2, the sender's email will display my server's email instead causing the REAL sender not to receive my confirmation email.

This is a very big problem and I need to change it so that the sender WILL receive a confirmation email by acquiring the right email address from the form.

 

[codemonkey]

The "from" field must satisfy RFC 2822. A firstname/lastname does not. Examples of acceptable format:

[email protected]
Bob Smith <[email protected]>

 

[THUNDERPOWER]

The "from" field must satisfy RFC 2822. A firstname/lastname does not. Examples of acceptable format:

[email protected]
Bob Smith <[email protected]>

English plz. What do I need to change?

 

[codemonkey]

English plz. What do I need to change?

This line won't work:

$mailheaders = "From:$sfname $slname";

You can't send it from a first name then a last name. An acceptable "from" field would be:

$mailheaders = "From:$sfname $slname <$semail>";

 

[THUNDERPOWER]

This is what I get now:

The email address in the brackets is definitely right this time, but for some reason, my auto-responder is not auto-replying to the message. I tried sending a normal email to it, and it worked, but not when I submit the form. Why is that?

 

[codemonkey]

That would be unrelated.

 

[THUNDERPOWER]

That would be unrelated.

Thanks a lot! I gotta spread rep or I would have given you some a few posts ago. I'll look into the responder thing though.