Need help: Sending HTML encoded mail from a webform

[SpinningCone]

Hey if some one could point me in the right direction for this i would be most appreciative.

 

basically I am building a website that users sign up on and i need a way to send out email broadcasts to the users. currently we use a listserv but i wanted to provide the users notification options so they can turn off notifications they don't want.

 

OK the option system is built and i can send out emails to the appropriate people via the mail() function but i want to be able to send html formatted mails easily.

 

so i grabbed this JavaScript rich text box nicEdit which looks good and gives me formatting options just like a mail clent would or i can basically copy/paste in a message from my normal email.

 

problem is the junk i get out of that textbox is not html (rtf formatting?) so when i send the mail i get a huge amount of junk or if i add html oto the content header the junk is hidden but the text isn't formatted. i don't know if there is a better option here or if i can easily convert the rtf output to html so i can cram it in the mail() function and get it sent out.