Help with email

[owner]

I am trying to send a confirmation email when a user submits a forum back to the user.  The problem that I am having is the email is being sent from root@localhost on my development machine rather than an address I specify in the headers.  I am logged in to a real email account that I have using imap_open() and I know I am connected as I am able to read/delete emails.

 

Here is what I am using to send the confirmation email:

$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail( $to , 'Application Submitted'  , 'Your application has successfully been submitted.', $headers);
imap_mail($to, 'Application Submitted', 'Your application has successfully been submitted.', $headers);

 

Both mail and imap_mail send from the crazy address.  Am I missing something?  What's interesting is if I sent an email using squirrelmail or outlook manually, the from address shows up fine, it is just when it is sent from php that it gets all messed up.

Thanks in advance!

owner

[schilly]

If the headers aren't set or set up properly the from address will default to the unix php user account (ex phpuser) @ server_name (usually an internal name for most hosting)

 

your code looks good though.

 

add the carriage on that last line. it could be messing up the default headers when the custom headers are added in.

 

$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n";

[owner]

No such luck

 

Anything else I could try?

owner

[schilly]

Try this example and email yourself to see if it works.

<?php
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "My email test.";
$message = "Hello, how are you?";

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

if ( mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers) ) {
   echo "The email has been sent!";
   } else {
   echo "The email has failed!";
   }
?>