Re: PHP's mail(): proper way to send a 'From' header

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Jay Moore <jaymoore@accu-com.com> wrote: > Greetings folks. I seem to be having a problem with PHP's mail() function > and sending 'From' headers properly. Here's my setup: > [snip!] > > I am getting bounce emails from certain ISPs (AOL, Roadrunner, some local > ISPs) saying the sender's domain does not exist. It seems that either mails > are coming from my hostname (nobody@web.mysite.com), or those ISPs are > reading the additional headers incorrectly. Unfortunately, this is not > acceptable. People aren't getting their emails, and the hammer is coming > down on me. Jay, try something like this: <?php $to = "email1@example.com"; $from = "email2@example.org"; $subject = "This is a test!"; $body = "\tThis is a test email.\n"; $body .= "That is all."; $headers = "From: ".$from."\r\n"; $headers .= "Reply-To: ".$from."\r\n"; $headers .= "X-Mailer: ".basename(__FILE__)."-PHP/".phpversion()."\r\n"; $headers .= "Return-Path: ".$from."\r\n"; mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers,'-f'.$from); ?> Note the fifth parameter passed to mail(): http://php.net/mail -- </Daniel P. Brown> Dedicated Servers - Intel 2.4GHz w/2TB bandwidth/mo. starting at just $59.99/mo. with no contract! Dedicated servers, VPS, and hosting from $2.50/mo.