Mime Email Headers from a form.

[Anon]

I searched and read and finally I am posting.

I have a set of scripts that are used for maintaing a mailing list. I am basically trying to simulate the initial subscribe email from a FORM.

My question is, the scripts I am using look at a header that is sent from the form. It I have tried

FROM: emailaddy@host \r\n
X-Sender: emailAddy@host \r\n

those fields send correctly but the form still says
Recieved: (from www@localhost) by host8.server.com

does anyone know how to trick it so that it thinks it is from that user on the lowest level?

Steve
(btw I am using the mail() function in php)

[Anon]

In essence, to do this you have to FORGE a mail-header. This is something generally done only by bad-nasty spammers, so I can't say that I've done this before.

However, what might work just as well is to use the headers option in php's mail() function, and put in a header of a valid transfer, so that it looks like the email is coming thru an indirect relay.

That's my guess, of course.

Something like
$header="Recieved: (from [e-mail]) by clientmailserver.com";

You are trying to do what the email-list management scripts are trying to prevent, so good luck.

[Anon]

Thanks for the info. I am not trying to do anything nasty my client just wants me to set up a web interface to her mailing list program so her users may subscribe and unsubscribe through a form on her page rather then send an email with the right words in it like it is now.

I am not a spammer I swear 🙂

Steve