mail() help

[Janus13]

I am seeing some odd behavior out of the mail function. I run a member management package on Apache with mysql and php 4. When the mail functions get invoked sometimes exim mail servers will reject the mail because it appears to originate from nobody@server. Is there a way to specify a user for the mail function to send from so they don't get rejected?

[Hooker]

Try something like this:

[code]
      $email = "whoever@yourmailing.com";
      $subject = "Subject!";
      $body = "whatever you want to email";
      $from = "From: Emailers Name <email@address.com>";
mail($email,$subject,$body,$from);
[/code]

it should do exactly what you need, you can always put the details directly into the mail() function but i prefer to have them in variables outside of the function.

[Janus13]

But does "nobody" still originate the email? I'll give this a try and see if it makes any difference.

[Hooker]

Heres the difference:

[code]      $from = "From: Emailers Name <email@address.com>";[/code]

The mail will be listed as from "Emailers Name" and also have the return address of "email@address.com" some spam filters may look at the header info of the email but it should work fine for most.

[kenrbnsn]

You probably need to use the fifth parameter to the mail() function to change the "Return-path:" header to include the domainname you're sending from.

[code]<?php
$p5 = '-f somename@yourdomainname.com';
mail($to,$subj,$mesg,$from,$p5);
?>[/code]

Ken

[Janus13]

So this should work ok?

[code]
function mymail($to,$subject,$message,$from){

$option = "-f me@mydomain.com";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$from,$option);
}

$to = "someone@someone.com";
$subject = "Test Email";
$message = "This is a test message";
$from = "From: My Site <me@mydomain.com>";
mymail($to,$subject,$message,$from);
[/code]

Also, the earlier suggestion doesn't seem to make any difference, so I'm hoping the last option will work.