Setting/Modify Headers using mail() function

[gatoruss]

I have a question about setting email headers when using mail() in a php script.

 

When I send an email from an email account set up domain (using, for example, [email protected]) and then view the header in the email that was received by the recipient account, the "Received:" header reads, in part, as follows:

 

Received: from localhost ([xxx.x.x.x] helo=www.MyDomain.net)

by servername.host.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69)

(envelope-from <[email protected]>)

id xxxxx-xxxxxxx-xx

 

However, when I send an email using a script that I am working on that uses the mail() function, I set the "From:" and "Return-path" to an email address I have for my domain ([email protected]). When I look at the header in the email that was received by the recipient account, the "Received:" header has my CPanel user name in it - and that kind of makes me nervous (as my host preaches not to disclose that to anyone).  In particular, here is what the "Received:" header looks like:

 

Received: from cPanelUserName by servername.host.com with local (Exim 4.69)

(envelope-from [email protected])

id xxxxx-xxxxxxx-xx; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:36:09 -0500

 

Here is the code snippet I am using to send email and set headers:

 

//Some additional email headers

$add_headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n". "Return-path: [email protected]" . "\r\n";

mail('[email protected]', $subject , $message , $add_headers, "-f [email protected]");

 

I have tried to modify the "Received:" header by adding some text to the header via the mail() function (for example, "Received:  SOME TEST]"), but it doesn't change the "Received:" header.

 

Please note, I don't want to make the header fraudulent, but I would prefer not to disclose my cPanel username.  I would just like the "Received:" header to resemble the first one quoted above.

 

I have checked with my host's help desk, they suggested it was not a server issue, but a scripting issue. They suggested I try their scripting forum for assistance.  I posted there, but no one there has shed any light on this yet.  So, I thought that I would try here.

 

I tried researching this on the Internet, and thus far I have not found any info on how to successfully modify "Received:" header with mail().  Info I have come across seems to suggest that this is a server issue and not something that can be changed via a script (at least via a script using mail()).  If that is the case, I am thinking I should stop looking for a solution using mail(), and take a different approach.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thanks

 

Russ

[gatoruss]

Bump..

 

...thought it would be okay to "bump" since it had slipped to page 21...

 

if that was bad form, I apologize...