mail() function and the "From" setting

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mail() function and the "From" setting

« on: January 03, 2007, 06:01:55 PM »

Sorry for the missing post, but there were two identical threads and somehow when I removed one they both disappeared ! Surprised

My apologies ! I am putting the posts back here as best i can:

jzimmerlin wrote:

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I'm making a PHP script that sends emails to cell phones using the mail() function. Even though I've set the "From" header and tried using ini_set() to change the "sendmail_from" value, the text message on the cell phone says its from "username@circini.lunarpages.com".

Here is the code I'm using, more or less..

ini_set(sendmail_from, "newsupdates@jeffzimmerlin.com");

$Header="From: newsupdates@jeffzimmerlin.com\r\n";

mail("$EmailAddress", "Subject", "Body", $Header);

Any ideas?

Jeff

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I'm having that issue to. I am using the phpmailer script to send. The from line shows what I've said, but if you look at the headers, it shows the my account's username@lunarpages. I'd love to prevent that as well.

I think it is because it is a php script that is sending the mail instead of it being sent via smtp. Hopefully someone can answer the question.

kthaman replied again:

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OK, I just found a way to edit the return-path in phpmailer.

Maybe the phpmailer script would be an alternative for you?


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Re: mail() function and the "From" setting

« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2007, 07:20:02 PM »

Well, phpMailer has a variable to set the return-path but it isn't working. And looking at the code for it, if there isn't a sender variable set, it should default to the from variable. Since this isn't working properly, I'm wondering if it has something to do with the way LunarPages sends out the mail? (Basically the code is doing the same thing yours is - setting the header.)

So is Lunarpages rejecting those header changes?

Also, I did try setting the sendmail_from in the php.ini, but that didn't help either.


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Re: mail() function and the "From" setting

« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2007, 02:14:49 PM »

The odd thing is that mail sent to my Yahoo! mail account using the PHP function mail() works perfect. The sender e-mail address is the e-mail address set using the header variable. However, the same e-mail sent to a cell phone has the username@circini.lunarpages.com sender address.


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Re: mail() function and the "From" setting

« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2007, 01:05:03 PM »

My problem was solved by removing the safemode line in my php.ini. I doubt you have that issue since the email portion worked, but maybe there is another setting that isn't obvious that is keeping the phone portion from working.


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Re: mail() function and the "From" setting

« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2007, 01:54:39 PM »

I added a 5th parameter to the mail() function, and it solved the problem.

Example:

<?php
mail('nobody@example.com', 'the subject', 'the message', null, '-fwebmaster@example.com');
?>


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