Re: Re: php from address

On Thursday 25 January 2007 18:51, M.Sokolewicz wrote: > Chantal Rosmuller wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > In November I sent a mail to this list asking how to get the mail From > > header right, I solved that but I still have a problem. The solution was > > using the -f option like this: > > > > $frommail = "user@domain.com"; > > mail("$to", "$subject", "$message", > > "$headers","-f$frommail"); > > > > The from address is correct now but the displayed name is still www-data > > (or apache, depends on the server configuration). The header looks like > > this: > > > > From: user@domain.com (www-data) > > > > Is there anyway to change this? > > Thanks, regards Chantal > > $frommail = "user@domain.com"; > mail("$to", "$subject", "$message", > "$headers","-f$frommail"); > > is an extremely ugly way to pass variables IMO. > $frommail = "user@domain.com"; > mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, "-f".$frommail); > > is a lot nicer IMO. Anyway, to get back to you. The "name" you want > would be supplied by having the header > From: user@domain.com > in the following format: > From: MyName Goes Here <user@domain.com> Okay that works! Thanks a lot.