email unknown sending :S

[EchoFool]

Hey

 

When ever i send my mail from a php mail function i get "unknown sender" in my gmail account but i clearly put who it was from in my headers and subject is also filled in yet subject doesn't come through either... my mail function is simple like this:

 

        // Send the email.
        $Email = $Var;
        $subject = 'Reminder';
        $headers = 'From: My only server!';
        $message = 'I am sending you a reminder! ';
        mail($Email, $subject, $message, $headers);

 

What am i doing wrong ?

[rajeevbharti]

dear friend you try like this i hope it will work

 

 

<?php

$to      = '[email protected]';

$subject = 'the subject';

$message = 'hello';

$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .

    'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .

    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

 

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>

 

[oni-kun]

what am i doing wrong?

Yes, you are not sending the from address, is it supposed to appear there?

 

As well, you should set the MIME header to prevent spam traps and allow html if you wish so.

$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";

 

 

[EchoFool]

No i didn't want to send a server email as i aint set up emails from my server.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The From: header must be a valid email address at the sending mail server. You are lucky that your mail server even sent it or that the gmail server accepted it.

 

If you want to send directly to your gmail mailbox, you will need to use SMTP authentication, which the php mail() function does not support. You would need to use one of the many php mailer classes.

[EchoFool]

Which is the best mail function to use then ? And that might explain why people don't get my activation emails

[PFMaBiSmAd]

What problem are you trying to solve? Sending an email directly to your own mailbox at an ISP without using your web host's mail server or sending emails to any arbitrary email address that visitors to your site have provided and if so, what email server do you want to use as the sending mail server?

[EchoFool]

The latter one and currently i just been using mail function to send them i didn't know it get any more in depth than that =/