[Nottingham] php mail function character escapes

[Martin]

Folks,

(Using php5)

I'm trying to use:

mail(FORM_mailto, FORM_mailsubj, stripslashes($mailbody), FORM_mailhead);

for mailing out user entered form data. "mailbody" is collected from a
textbox on the form.

I'm using:

if (filter_var(FORM_email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))

to wipe out silly email addresses and spamming attempts.

So...

Is the "stripslashes($mailbody)" safe against spammers?

Even so, I still see such as quotes and various shift-characters escaped
or even converted to their escaped octal codes. Not pretty to look at in
the resultant email!


So what bit of detail am I missing? How can I avoid the email escapes?

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
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