Email - Change the From

celeron895 · Mar 17, 2003

I am sending an email using the following:
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$headline = $HTTP_POST_VARS['Headline'];
$text = $HTTP_POST_VARS['Text'];

$email_to = "contact@mysite.com";
$email_subject = "Press Release";
$email_message ="The following was submitted as a press release.\n"
."Headline: $headline\n\n"
."Text: $text";

$email_header = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
."Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n"
." boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

$ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $email_header);

header("Location: pressreleasethankyou.shtml&quot

;
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How can I change the "from" part of the email? Currently it shows as 'Nobody'.

tleish · Mar 17, 2003

Try this:

=== START CODE EXAMPLE ===
<?php
$headline = $HTTP_POST_VARS['Headline'];
$text = $HTTP_POST_VARS['Text'];

$email_to = "

Code:

contact@mysite.com

";
$email_subject = "Press Release";
$email_message = "The following was submitted as a press release.\n"
."Headline: $headline\n\n" ."Text: $text";

$email_header = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
."Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n"
." boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\""
."From: ".$myname." <".$myemail.">\r\n"
."Reply-To: ".$myname." <$myreplyemail>\r\n";

$ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $email_header);

header("Location: pressreleasethankyou.shtml");

?>

=== END CODE EXAMPLE === - tleish

sleipnir214 · Mar 18, 2003

That may or may not do it.

For example, qmail will override some of the headers with values from environment variables. You may also have to hand sendmail the "-f" parameter (via mail() through the optional "additional parameters" input parameter:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php)

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BitFuzzy · Mar 18, 2003

Hello

why not just keep it simple;

<?
print "<html><body>";
$recipient = "<address where you're sending";
$subject = "Press Release";
posted at\n

http://www.campney.net/faq$

$message = "The following was submitted as a press release.

Headline: $headline
Text: $text";

$extra = "From:<your email address>";
mail($recipient,$subject,$message,$extra);
print "</body></html>";
header("Location: pressreleasethankyou.shtml&quot

;
?>

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Email - Change the From

celeron895

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tleish

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sleipnir214

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BitFuzzy

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