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mail from webpage want to customise the from field.


mojito

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Hi Guys

Currently I have a contact form on a server which sends a message to the website owner, a simple contact form. I would like the from field to contain the email from the form which the user submits.

I have

[code]mail("freaks@aol.com", "bit of text", $message2, "From: \"$name\" <$email>\$email") or die(" \n There was some error sending the mail please contact me via email directly freaks@aol.com , sorry for the inconvienience.");[/code]

this works but the from field must be being overidden from the server as it puts its own server stamp in there.

Am i using mail(); wrong?

I just saw this on php site

If you try to set "From:" e-mail header value under Windows when it is already defined in php.ini "sendmail_from" value, this will doesn't work. If you still want to customize this value, then you must use another option like XPertMailer ( [a href=\"http://www.xpertmailer.com/\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.xpertmailer.com/[/a] ) to send the e-mail directly to the client SMTP server or use a relay SMTP server with authentification option.
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try something like this
here is the form
[code]
form.php


<form method=post action=sendemail.php>
<center><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class=contacttable><tH class=contacthead><center>Contact</CENTER>
<TR><TD>From: <input type=text name=email>
<TR><TD>Subject: <input type=text name=sub size=70>
<TR><TD>Message:<br />
<textarea name=mess cols=80 rows=10></textarea><BR />
<input type=submit name=submit value=send>
</th></tr></td></table></center></form>

[/code]

and here is the page that sends the email

[code]
sendemail.php
<?php
$to = "freaks@aol.com";
$sub=$_POST['sub'];
$mess = $_POST['mess'];
$from="From: $_POST[email]";

$mail=mail("$to", "$sub", "$mess", "$from");
    if(!$mail){
print "<center>Sorry Your E-mail Was Not Sent</center>";
}else{
print "<center>Your E-mail Was Sent Successfuly</center>";
}
?>

[/code]
this is the cantact form i have on my site and it works great
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