About Masking PHP Mail "From" Address

[phpQuestioner]

My host requires me to list a email address from within my domain to send and receive php emails. So in my "From", I have to use [email protected]. Is there any way I can still keep my "From" address as a normal mailto email address (like: "[email protected]"), but display the name of my business in my clients email application?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example

 

  Date      Subject                                                  From

 

03/27/07  John Doe's Roofing Has Receive Your Email    John Doe's Roofing Inc.

 

 

 

 

Is there any way I can do this?

[NSW42]

Are your trying to hide your actual email address to the recipient ?

[phpQuestioner]

not so much - if they see the email address that is fine; but I would just like them  to easily identify who the sender is. I think my customers would be more likely to realize who it is that is sending them an auto reply; if the business name was in the "From" section of their email client. I don't want them to just see an email address and not know who it is and just automatically think my auto replier is spam. You know what I mean? 

 

It may be filtered out as spam any way - automatically by their client; but I at least want to make an effort to establish auto reply.

[NSW42]

post your php mailer script

[Leeder]

In the mailing script, just change the from header to whatever you'd like.

 

$subject = "I Made Pizza";
$message = "=)";
$from = "That Wacky Pizza Dude";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);

echo "Ok, $username!<br />";
echo "Soon you should get an email!";

 

...or something like that.

[phpQuestioner]

<?php

@$Name = addslashes($_POST['Name']);
@$Email = addslashes($_POST['Email']);
@$Phone = addslashes($_POST['Phone']);
@$Comments = stripslashes($_POST['Comments']);

if () 
{
// For Validation Would Be Here
}

// The "From" cannot be changed to an address outside my domain - hosting rules

$header = "From: [email protected]\n"
  . "Reply-To: [email protected]\n";
$subject = "Order Confirmation";
$email = "$Email";
$message = "$Name We Have Successfully Received Your Email And Will Be Contacting You Soon.\n\n\nThank You For You Business\nJohn Doe's Roofing Inc.";
@mail($email, $subject ,$message ,$header ) ;

?>

[phpQuestioner]

So I tried this:

 

 

<?php

@$Name = addslashes($_POST['Name']);
@$Email = addslashes($_POST['Email']);
@$Phone = addslashes($_POST['Phone']);
@$Comments = stripslashes($_POST['Comments']);

if () 
{
// For Validation Would Be Here
}

// The "From" cannot be changed to an address outside my domain - hosting rules

$header = "From: John Doe's Roofing Inc. <[email protected]>\n"
  . "Reply-To: [email protected]\n";
$subject = "Order Confirmation";
$email = "$Email";
$message = "$Name We Have Successfully Received Your Email And Will Be Contacting You Soon.\n\n\nThank You For You Business\nJohn Doe's Roofing Inc.";
@mail($email, $subject ,$message ,$header ) ;

?>

 

 

but it still produced the same results. Actual email address is visible in the "From" section of email client.

[phpQuestioner]

Does anyone know how I can accomplish what I am trying to do?