How To Set From in PHP Mail

Dave Brown · February 22nd, 2007, 04:01 PM

I'd like to set the From in the PHP Mail using:

mail($email_address, $email_subject, $email_body, "From: John Doe\r\n" . "Content-type: text/html\r\n");

OR BETTER YET...

mail($email_address, $email_subject, $email_body, "From: $from_name\r\n" . "Content-type: text/html\r\n");

But every mail I receive has "John Doe" changed into "John.Doe.blah.com"

It seems like something is demanding that the From the a formatted email address.

Any suggestions?

TIA

prashu_hi25 · February 25th, 2007, 06:10 AM

Hi Dave,

y don't u use another php mail function

<?php
// multiple recipients
$to = '[email protected]' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= '[email protected]';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
  <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
  <table>
   <tr>
     <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
   </tr>
  </table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <[email protected]>, Kelly <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

For more info see url : http://in2.php.net/function.mail