phMailer email format problem

[Charlie]

Scott -

I found your phMailer script and intend to use it on the website I maintain for our local youth soccer association. It will be used as a contact form so folks can contact our Board of Directors members (President, Vice President, and so on).

I have customized the script some (left all your copyright stuff in it) so that it resembles the look of our website (background image, etc).

I have not altered your execution coding.

I sent a few test emails to myself using the script. Emails came through ok.

But...............
The textarea message ($yourmessage) does not appear in the email as it was typed into the text area box.

I've looked through your Forum and found no fix for the problem I am seeing. I did see one posts for the same problem, but no explanation or fix for it.

Example (textarea box input):

This is a test message.
LINE 1
LINE 2
LINE 3

END LINE

Here is what the message looks like in the received email:

This is a test message.LINE 1LINE 2LINE 3END LINE

I would like the message to retain the look of what was actually keyed into the text area box. That way if the person that is contacting one of our Board Members keys in their message as different paragraphs, the resulting email will look the same and be more easy on the eyes to read.

I've tried some things to fix this problem to no avail. I am not a php expert, just a novice webmaster. I am capable of understanding techiniques and figuring out code logic. But, I am in the learning stages of using php, and am lost on what to do to remedy the problem I am trying to resolve.

FYI:
My email client is Outlook Express. I don't believe it is the problem, as other form scripts I've used in the past do not do this with textarea inputs.

Also, here is some info regarding my site hosting agent:
(Not sure if this will help of be of use, but submitting just in case).
Platform Type: Debian
MySQL Version: MySQL Version 5.0.45
Perl Version: Perl 5.8.8
PHP Version: PHP 5.2.2

Can you help me out on this problem and offer an explanation (and possible fix) on why the textarea message does not include any carriage returns and/or line feeds in the resulting email?

Thanks!