How to change "from" using mail()?

[Kane250]

I'm sending mail using mail() through php, but every email I get, comes in as apache@localhost. I have tried changing all the headers so that From: comes from my email address, but this still does not change this in the inbox.

 

Any ideas what I need to do to change this? Should I be using something other than mail() ?

 

Thanks!

[dezkit]

php.ini i think

[Kane250]

php.ini i think

 

So is that the only way? Would I be better off using something like the imap functions? I don't know if I'll have access to the php.ini through my hosting company...I would assume not, right?

[realjumper]

I had a similar problem a while back, and the cure was in the 'header' information of the mail function. Post your code and lets see. I'm going offline soon but I'll check back later of no one else comes up with answer

[Kane250]

I had a similar problem a while back, and the cure was in the 'header' information of the mail function. Post your code and lets see. I'm going offline soon but I'll check back later of no one else comes up with answer

 

Thanks! Here is what I'm using...

 

<?php

$to =  implode(",", $massmail);
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = stripslashes ($_POST['msgpost']);
$from = 'myemail@gmail.com';

//IF AN EMAIL IS POSTED, INSERS THE HEADERS AND SEND EMAIL WITH HTML ENCODING
print "<p>";
if ($_POST) {
mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: $from\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");
print "<b>E-mail sent!</b>";
}


?>

[Kane250]

bump?

[revraz]

That looks right.  Where is apache@localhost being set at?  Try to do a text search and see where it is and post the filename.

[Kane250]

That looks right.  Where is apache@localhost being set at?  Try to do a text search and see where it is and post the filename.

 

Where would I do a search for it?

[revraz]

Is this your server or a shared host?

[DarkWater]

I believe it's in httpd.conf, under AdminEmail or ServerEmail or something like that.

[kenrbnsn]

You need to use the optional fifth parameter and set it to:

<?php
$ fifth_param = '-f ' . $from;
mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: $from\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1",$fifth_param);
?>

 

Ken

[realjumper]

orry to be so slow getting back to you. When I came across this same problem I fixed it like this.....

 

//Declaring variables getting ready for the function
$to      = $row['email'];
$from    = $row['from_email'];
$subject = 'This is the subject';
$message = "Here is the first line of the message.<br><br> $whatever (put a variable in the second line of the message)<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Bye Bye";



$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit\n";
$headers .= "From: $from_email\n"; 

//The actual function
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

[Kane250]

Is this your server or a shared host?

 

This is not my server...

 

You need to use the optional fifth parameter and set it to:

<?php
$ fifth_param = '-f ' . $from;
mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: $from\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1",$fifth_param);
?>

 

Ken

 

Nope, this didn't change anything :-/

 

orry to be so slow getting back to you. When I came across this same problem I fixed it like this.....

 

Thanks, but this didn't work either...