Mail function changing From(urgent plz)

[ahmiq]

Hi friends i need to know how i can change my from address.

mail($mailaddy, $subject, $message, );

i am using the above function i want when some one get this mail the from address must be some [e-mail] and not the default one mail server use any one can help thanx

[notionlogic]

I think the command you need is:

mail($mailaddy, $subject, $message, "From: [e-mail]");

Hope this helps

[ahmiq]

#!/usr/local/php/bin/php -q
<?php
$subject ="test mail" ;
$message ="test" ;

if(file_exists("usermail.txt"))
{
$newfile = fopen("/home/ahmiq/usermail.txt", "r");
while(!feof($newfile))
{
$mailaddy = fgetss($newfile, 255);
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: imtiaz <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$headers .= "To: $mailaddy\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ahmiq\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: DreamZ";

//$mailaddy = fgetss($newfile, 255);
mail($mailaddy, $subject, $message, $headers );

    }

fclose($newfile);
}
?>

Ok this is the whole story.But its not working. When i excute the script it send the mail to local user as it should but in file usermail.txt there are some yahoo and hotmail address too.But that adress get mail from shell user name like "root".

Any help appreciated

[notionlogic]

You've not made it clear exactly what happens - do you get an error message? An empty email arrives at the address specified? what?

And anyway, aren't you now describing a different problem? Sounds suspiciously like you've got a file full of "grabbed" email addresses and now you're trying to spam people but hide your real email address... 😃

Either way, I would suggest that you try echoing the values of all the variables concerned so you can see exactly what they contain at the time the system tries to send the message...

[ahmiq]

Friend thats not matter.We are offering our users some type of mailing list where i want to excute some scripts to send mail to all users of our isp.

however problem is only this when it send email to local users (which exist on the same machine it works fine)

but when i add mail address of yahoo or others that address recives e mails from default shell user name "root".so u can guess its not spam i am actully trying to hide my root id from users.