[SOLVED] quick sending email question

[mattennant]

I'm trying to sort out sending an email to admin when a user updates their info

 

all is going fine with the following

if ($_POST['mailer'] =='y'){
  $body = 'you have a new message from a user.'  ;
  mail($_POST['email'],   'Message from user' ,  $body,  '[email protected]');

 

but if i try

if ($_POST['mailer'] =='y'){
  $body = 'you have a new message from a user.'  ;
  $from = '[email protected]'  ;
  mail($_POST['email'],   'Message from user' ,  $body,  $from);

 

i receive the mail, but it comes from Apache  rather than [email protected]

 

do i need to looka t my server setting, or am i making some stupid error

 

Thanks

 

Mat

 

[volatileboy]

Try this:

 

if ($_POST['mailer'] =='y'){
  $body = 'you have a new message from a user.'  ;
  $from = '[email protected]'  ;
  mail($_POST['email'], 'Message from user', $body, "From: $from");

[mattennant]

bingo

 

that's the devil

 

thanks a bunch for your help

 

mat