email on behalf of, issue with contact us script.

[Bottyz]

Hi all,

 

Our webhost has upgraded to a more secure mail server and since then all the enquiries we receive from our own website don't have our name to them.

 

For example:

 

Before the mail server was changed our emails from our contactus.php would come in as Joe Bloggs Ltd <"[email protected]">. With all the usual subject/message.

 

Now it comes through as [email protected] On Behalf Of [email protected]

 

This wouldn't be a problem, except this happens on any of the successfully registered etc emails which come from our regirstration area on the website (as it uses a very similar script method). So our customers sometimes block the email as its coming from a random address.

 

The script works as so:

 

	$contact_to_email="[email protected]";
	$contact_subject="Alert: ";
	$contact_from_email="[email protected]";

	$visitor_name_and_email="$visitor_name (" . $visitor_email . ")";
	$contact_from_email="$contact_from_name <$contact_from_email>";
	$message_subject="Website Enquiry";

	//message

	$headers = "From: " . $contact_from_email . "\r\n";
	$headers .= "Reply-To: ". $contact_from_email . "\r\n";
	$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
	$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";

                mail($contact_to_email, $contact_subject." $message_subject", $message, $headers);

 

I've stripped out input verification etc to make it easier to read. Is there anything I can do to the script above to cure the issue?

 

Ta!

[requinix]

You need to send from whatever email server handles joebloggs.com (smtp.europe.secureserver.net). Otherwise, since server1.host.com knows that it doesn't handle that domain's email traffic, then it will include a Sender: header which triggers the "on behalf of" reaction.

[Bottyz]

You need to send from whatever email server handles joebloggs.com (smtp.europe.secureserver.net). Otherwise, since server1.host.com knows that it doesn't handle that domain's email traffic, then it will include a Sender: header which triggers the "on behalf of" reaction.

 

Thanks for the reply, would mail.joebloggs.com (as set in my dns a records) be what I'm looking to use? Or do I need to put something else? It is all sent via the php mail() function so doesn't use smtp.

 

 

[requinix]

Question: what is the actual server1.host.com you mentioned before? Is it a long name starting with "p3pwssweb"? Otherwise you can PM me if you don't want it public.