Correcting the name of the sender from ssmtp

[freelance84]

 

I managed to get the ssmtp to forward on mail to my email host using ssmtp to my server on ubuntu 11.04 with help from Thorpe. In my previous thread (click here) on the topic i stated that the subject of the email was being "received" incorrect: This was actually false. The subject is being received correctly, however the mail is not being received as if from my email pop box, but instead as from 'www-data'

 

 

Here is an example of one of the php scripts being used (which worked perfectly well before):

$boundary = uniqid('np');

$to = "contact-us@mydomain.com";

$subject = "ContactUs Public Message";

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Contact Us Public Page <contact-us@mydomain.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "nReply-To: no-reply@mydomain.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary=" . $boundary . "\r\n";

$message = "\r\n\r\n--" . $boundary . "\r\n";
$message .= "Content-type: text/plain;charset=utf-8\r\n\r\n";
$message .= $msg_non_html;

$message .= "\r\n\r\n--" . $boundary . "\r\n";
$message .= "Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8\r\n\r\n";
$message .= $msg_html;

$message .= "\r\n\r\n--" . $boundary . "--";

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

 

What i am getting through in the email inbox is just the plain text version and nothing else (i get the same in outlook as i do hotmail inbox and yahoo mail)

Content-type: text/plain;charset=utf-8

 

the rest of the plain text email

 

When i right click to view the source of the email in outlook, i am getting both the plain text and html version through, but for some reason it is not being read correctly. This is an example of  the source being recieved:

Return-path: <www-data@mydomain.com>
Envelope-to: contact-us@mydomain.com
Delivery-date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:41:58 +0100
Received: from [31.777.777.777] (helo=Svr01.mydomain.com)
by serverX.bb-online.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <www-data@mydomain.com>)
id 1REixR-000607-GC
for contact-us@mydomain.com; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:41:58 +0100
Received: by Svr01.mydomain.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:41:57 +0000
From: "www-data" <www-data@mydomain.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:41:57 +0000
To: contact-us@mydomain.com
Subject: ContactUs Public Message
X-PHP-Originating-Script: 1002:email_contact_us_public.php
MIME-Version: 1.0
nReply-To: no-reply@mydomain.com
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary=np4e984a350db71
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 111014-0, 14/10/2011), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean





--np4e984a350db71

Content-type: text/plain;charset=utf-8

The plan text email


--np4e984a350db71

Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8

The html version of the email

--np4e984a350db71--

 

I can only assume this is an issue to do with my server only giving the email to another server which will post the mail on my behalf, or that i have missed a small ssmtp config line somewhere... Does anyone have any idea?

[freelance84]

Ok, well without actually doing anything, the emails sent are now being received with the correct name in the 'from section'.... but I did not do anything to make it so... it just happened.

 

 

The email it self will still only show the non-html version though.... ??? 

 

 

The headers have changed a little:

 

Return-path: <accounts@mydomain.com>
Envelope-to: john@recipientemail.com
Delivery-date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:46:26 +0100
Received: from [10.3.1.1] (helo=serverYY.bb-online.co.uk ident=hidden-user)
by serverX.bb-online.co.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256)
(Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <accounts@mydomain.com>)
id 1RFSuw-0002oz-1Y
for john@recipientemail.com; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:46:26 +0100
Received: from [31.222.189.203] (helo=Svr01.mydomain.com)
by serverYY.bb-online.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128)
(Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <accounts@mydomain.com>)
id 1RFSuu-0003QS-UP
for john@recipientemail.com; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:46:25 +0100
Received: by Svr01.mydomain.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:46:27 +0000
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:46:27 +0000
To: john@recipientemail.com
Subject: Private Message
X-PHP-Originating-Script: 1002:email_private_message.php
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: DeRep <accounts@mydomain.com>
nReply-To: no-reply@mydomain.com
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary=np4e9afc5378843
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - serverYY.bb-online.co.uk
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - recipientemail.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - mydomain.com
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 111016-0, 16/10/2011), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean

 

 

If anyone has any ideas, i'm all ears but if i do find a solution beforehand I will post to solve this thread.

 

(the only thing remaining is the html and non-html issue)