Question

I have a feedback form where the user can enter his/her feedbacks in a textarea. When the form is submitted I am using the php mail function to get all the user details into my mail.

mail( "[e-mail]", "Subject: Comments posted by $postedBy", $message, "From: $emailID" );

Here $message is the user comments. But I get something like this in the email body.

Hi.test line break\r\nnew line\r\nnewline 2\r\ntest again\r\nagain.

The line breaks in text area are showing up in the mail. How can I fix this?

Edit:

$message = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['comments']);

Answer 1

Are the \r\n directly displayed or is all in one line without seeing \r\n?
For last I think you have to set the correct content-type.
In example 4 on http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php you can see how to set the content-type. But you have to use plain/text for that.

EDIT:
After your edit: mysql_real_escape maskes all linebreaks. use $_POST[‘comment’] on your mail()-call to have it working!

mail($to, $subject, $_POST['comment'], $from);