If you want the text to line up in columns, is there any reason why you don't have the stuff in the message lined up?

Member Name:   $name
Member ID:     $memberid
Telephone:     $phone
Email Address: $email
Guest Name(s): $guest
Event Date:    $eventdate
Events:        $event
Payment:       $payment

Message:       $message

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or

  Member Name: $name
    Member ID: $memberid
    Telephone: $phone
Email Address: $email
Guest Name(s): $guest
   Event Date: $eventdate
       Events: $event
      Payment: $payment

      Message: $message

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Of course, you'd want to make sure that all of the stuff was properly wrapped if it was too long of a string, etc. But if those items are verified to be short, it's not a problem. (I'm assuming $message isn't.... for that, look at format and write)

Installing new modules just for this simple task would be overkill, if the builtin stuff meets the needs, in my opinion.

And um... as you said 'provider'. I hope this isn't for a web page. If it is, return a webpage -- sending to email addresses that were entered on a web page is just asking for trouble.

In reply to Re: Email Formatting by jhourcle
in thread Email Formatting by b310

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