Email FROM Entry

[Michael42]

Generally I am finding the PHP mail() function easy to use except for setting who the email is comming from.

As I understand it mail()'s parameters are: mail(sendto, subject, message). Where is from????

I need to set this dynamically so making a static entry in the php.ini file is not practical.

How can I do this?

Thanks,

Michael42

 

[DRJ478]

You can send additional headers as a fourth argument to mail(); The PHP documentation gives an example:

<?php
mail(&quot;nobody@example.com&quot;, &quot;the subject&quot;, $message,
     &quot;From: webmaster@{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}\r\n&quot;
    .&quot;Reply-To: webmaster@{$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']}\r\n&quot;
    .&quot;X-Mailer: PHP/&quot; . phpversion());
?>

I always recommend phpmailer.sourceforge.net because it takes all the thinking out of sending mail, may it be multipart MIME or not.

http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net

 

[sleipnir214]

Keep in mind, too, that your MTA may affect how effective using the "From:" header will be.

For example, qmail is pretty picky about "From:" headers and may not use the headers you provide. Qmail takes sender information from environment variables.

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[unborn]

a little less confusing look..


mail ("toperson@domain.com", "Hey", "did you get this email?", "From: me@domain.com&quot


you can also use Reply-to: where from is.. and i think CC: and BSS: or something.

in the begining man created code.
in the end code will create man.
clones are coming only matter of time.
examples?

http://planetsourcecode.com

 

[Michael42]

Thanks - your suggestions worked great!

Michael42