I am sending a contact email using ajax on wordpress on submit. From the code below you can see that the FROM header is correctly set but instead wordpress is picking the header from phpmailer_init action to set as the header. can anyone help me resolve this

add_action('wp_ajax_contact_form', 'contact');
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_contact_form', 'contact');
function contact(){
  // if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
  /* sanitize and validate */
    $name = isset($_POST['name'])? sanitize_text_field( $_POST['name'] ) : null;
    $phone = isset($_POST['phone'])? sanitize_text_field($_POST['phone']): null;
    $email = isset($_POST['email'])? sanitize_email( $_POST['email'] ) : null;
    $message = isset($_POST['message'])? sanitize_text_field( $_POST['message'] ) : null;
    $subject = isset($_POST['subject'])? sanitize_text_field( $_POST['subject'] ) : null;

    /* start sending */
    $to = '[email protected]';
    $headers = array('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8', "From: $name <$email>");
    // $headers[] = "From: $name <$email>";
    $body = "Phone number: $phone <br><br> $message";
    $sent = wp_mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
    if($sent){
      echo "Email delivered successfuly";
    }
  // }
}

I am sending a contact email using ajax on wordpress on submit. From the code below you can see that the FROM header is correctly set but instead wordpress is picking the header from phpmailer_init action to set as the header. can anyone help me resolve this

add_action('wp_ajax_contact_form', 'contact');
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_contact_form', 'contact');
function contact(){
  // if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
  /* sanitize and validate */
    $name = isset($_POST['name'])? sanitize_text_field( $_POST['name'] ) : null;
    $phone = isset($_POST['phone'])? sanitize_text_field($_POST['phone']): null;
    $email = isset($_POST['email'])? sanitize_email( $_POST['email'] ) : null;
    $message = isset($_POST['message'])? sanitize_text_field( $_POST['message'] ) : null;
    $subject = isset($_POST['subject'])? sanitize_text_field( $_POST['subject'] ) : null;

    /* start sending */
    $to = '[email protected]';
    $headers = array('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8', "From: $name <$email>");
    // $headers[] = "From: $name <$email>";
    $body = "Phone number: $phone <br><br> $message";
    $sent = wp_mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
    if($sent){
      echo "Email delivered successfuly";
    }
  // }
}

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• ajax

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You need to add newlines to your array like:

$headers = array('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n', "From: $name <$email>\r\n");