< is not working in a string with email
<p>I am making a script that sends some individual emails to specific users, since I need authentication, I am using PEAR mail function and its working great, but when I a try to put in the from address the name and email of my enterprise, I get an error, so I was testing and testing and went back to baby steps where a very simple script showed me that something is wrong, but I don´t know if it is with PHP configuration, my script, my structure or what is happening. I the following code, I have in one variable the name, the second one is the email, and the third one appends both and adds the &lt; > for the email, when I echo it, only the name appears, the  is not echoed and that same is what is happening in my pear script.</p>

<pre><code>    &lt;?php
    $var1 = "John";
    $var2 = "john@domain.com";
    echo $var12 = "$var1 $var2&lt;br&gt;"; // This one outputs name and email without the &lt; &gt;
    echo $var122 = "$var1 &lt;$var2&gt; &lt;br&gt;"; // This one only outputs the data of $var1
    ?&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>I appreciate your help.</p>
