sendmail_from=

nydanv

Hi I am on a win server with php. I was wondering if there was a way to have a form send mail using the users e-mail address instead of what i have defined in the php.ini sendmail_from=.

From example:
Fill out a form and I would recieve the e-mail but it would have "users e-mail" rather then mine which I have declared in the php.ini file under

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = myemail@example.com

rather it be
sendmail_from = usersemail@theirdomain.com

is there anyway to do this?

dalecosp

$to="you@yourbox.com";
$header="From: [email]me@mydomain.net[/email]\r\n";
$subj="Do it like this...";
$message="You can specify the From: address in the mail header!!";

$sent=mail($to, $subj, $message, $header);

HTH,

KoshNaranek

There is one more way...

@mail("$sendto", $msubject , stripslashes($sendmsg), $headers, "-f$sentby");

with the -f you change the header of the mail totaly:

X-Authentication-Warning: server.network.de: wwwrun set sender to name@domain.com using -f

When you do this, the mail looks and feels like a mail from name@domain.com... Some Spamfilters would send back mails without -f-Headers...

nydanv

i now get the from to say
"me@mydomain.net" <mailto@yahoo.com>, UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR.

this message is in the to field when i click repy in outlook

<?php

$name=trim($name);
$email=trim($email);
$sub=trim($subject);
$problem=trim($problem);
$header="From:me@mydomain.net<mailto:me@mydomain.com>\r\n";

if (!ereg("^{[a-zA-Z0-9_]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$",} $email))
{
echo "That is not a valid email address. Please return to the"
." previous page and try again.";
exit;
}

$toaddress = "feedback@blah.com"; // the default value

$subject = "helpdesk request from intranet site";
$mailcontent = "User name: ".$name."\n"
."Subject: ".$sub."\n"
."User email: ".$email."\n"
."Problem: \n".$problem."\n";

mail($toaddress, $sub, $mailcontent, $header);

?>
<html>
<head>
<title>This confirms we have received your request.</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Feedback submitted</h1>
<p>Your feedback (shown below) has been sent to <? echo $toaddress; ?></p>
<p><? echo nl2br($mailcontent); ?> </p>

</body>
</html>

scoppc

You dont need the mailto:

dalecosp

Originally posted by scoppc
You dont need the mailto:

Aye, there's the rub...

Originally posted by nydanv
in outlook...

'splains a lot .... 😃