Re: PHP's mail(): proper way to send a 'From' header
| From: | Chris | Date: | Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:08:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP's mail(): proper way to send a 'From' header | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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> <?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
>
And also note that the 5th parameter is an email address only.. Don't do
something like:
<?php
$from = "Me <email@example.org>";
and try to use that as the 5th parameter, it won't work.
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