Web Form With Smtp Authentication

[tmurphy218]

Hello, I have a contact form that uses SMTP authentication. I want the form to be sent from the e-mail address the user enters (so I can hit reply when I get the message) and not from the address used to authenticate.

 

The form works perfectly until I try to get it sent from any other address than the one in the account.

 

Is this possible? I can't image it's not. does anyone have sample code I can view?

 

Thanks.

 

Todd

[Christian F.]

Set the "reply-to" address instead, as that'll do exactly what you're looking for. Without causing problems with the servers' MTA.

[tmurphy218]

Thank you Christian.

 

as I am new to PHP might I ask anyone to help with implementing the Reply-to? I've tried and keep missing something.

 

My form is coming from TEST<todd@xxxxxx.com> - as shown in below code but I need it to come from $email so that when the e-mail is replied to it goes to that address, not TEST<todd@xxxxxx.com>.

 

 

This is my original code. Thank you!

 

 

<?php

if(isset($_POST['email'])) {

 

function died($error) {

// your error code can go here

echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";

echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";

echo $error."<br /><br />";

echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";

die();

}

 

// validation expected data exists

if(!isset($_POST['contact_name']) ||

!isset($_POST['email']) ||

!isset($_POST['telephone']) ||

!isset($_POST['comments'])) {

died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');

}

 

$contact_name = $_POST['contact_name']; // required

$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required

$telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // required

$comments = $_POST['comments']; // not required

 

$error_message = "";

$email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';

if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {

$error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';

}

$string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z 0-9.'-]+$/";

if(!preg_match($string_exp,$contact_name)) {

$error_message .= 'The Contact Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';

}

if(!preg_match($string_exp,$telephone)) {

$error_message .= 'The Telephone # you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';

}

 

if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {

died($error_message);

}

$email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";

 

function clean_string($string) {

$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");

return str_replace($bad,"",$string);

}

 

$email_message .= "Contact Name: ".clean_string($contact_name)."\n";

$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";

$email_message .= "Telephone: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";

$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";

 

ini_set('display_errors',1);

error_reporting(E_ALL);

 

require_once "Mail.php";

 

$from = "TEST<todd@xxxxxx.com>";

$to = "<anyone@xxxxxxxx.com>";

$subject = "Test message";

$body = "$email_message";

 

$host = "mail.xxxxxxxx.com";

$username = "todd@xxxxxxxx.com";

$password = "xxxxxxxxxx";

 

$headers = array ('From' => $from,

'To' => $to,

'Subject' => $subject);

$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',

array ('host' => $host,

'auth' => true,

'username' => $username,

'password' => $password));

 

$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

 

if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {

echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");

} else {

echo("<p></p>");

}

?>

 

 

<!-- include your own success html here -->

message sent

 

<?php

}

?>