Instead of:

Hello,

Thank you dfasdfasdfasdf asdf asdf asdfas dfs

Please, feelasdf asdf asdf 

The email that arrives in my mailbox looks like the following:

<p>Hello,</p> 
<p>&nbsp;</p> 
<p>Thank you dfasdfasdfasdf asdf asdf asdfas dfs</p> 
<p>&nbsp;</p> 
<p>Please, feel asdfads fad f</p> 

So, I guess the HTML is not turned on for the wp_mail() function? How do you turn it on so the mail will arrive as it should and the <p> and <br> tags are interpreted correctly?

I am using this to send my mail from functions.php when the submit button is pressed:

   $headers = 'From: XXXXXX <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
   $subject = 'Registration from xxxxx' . "\r\n"; 
   $message = $result_email_text;
   wp_mail($_POST['admin_email'], $subject, $message, $headers );

Instead of:

Hello,

Thank you dfasdfasdfasdf asdf asdf asdfas dfs

Please, feelasdf asdf asdf 

The email that arrives in my mailbox looks like the following:

<p>Hello,</p> 
<p>&nbsp;</p> 
<p>Thank you dfasdfasdfasdf asdf asdf asdfas dfs</p> 
<p>&nbsp;</p> 
<p>Please, feel asdfads fad f</p> 

So, I guess the HTML is not turned on for the wp_mail() function? How do you turn it on so the mail will arrive as it should and the <p> and <br> tags are interpreted correctly?

I am using this to send my mail from functions.php when the submit button is pressed:

   $headers = 'From: XXXXXX <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
   $subject = 'Registration from xxxxx' . "\r\n"; 
   $message = $result_email_text;
   wp_mail($_POST['admin_email'], $subject, $message, $headers );

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The default content type is 'text/plain' which does not allow using HTML. You can set the content type of the email by including a header like "Content-type: text/html"

$headers = 'Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: XXXXXX <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
   $subject = 'Registration from xxxxx' . "\r\n"; 
   $message = $result_email_text;
   wp_mail($_POST['admin_email'], $subject, $message, $headers );

Or you can set it by using the wp_mail_content_type filter

remove_filter( 'wp_mail_content_type', 'set_html_content_type' );
add_filter( 'wp_mail_content_type', 'set_html_content_type' );
function set_html_content_type() {

    return 'text/html';
}

For more detail see the following link: http://codex.wordpress/Function_Reference/wp_mail