[Resolved] mail() question

NoBullMan

Hi,
I am trying to send an email from within my php file, using the mail()
function and have a question:

I used something like:

$mail_to = "you@yourdomain.com";
$mail_subject = "Testing email";
$headers = "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From :".$_SESSION['Email']."\r\n";
$mail_body = '<html><body>blah blah blah ...</body></html>';

if (!mail($mail_to, $mail_subject, $mail_body, $headers))
echo "I failed!";

I do receive the email. However, instead of the email coming from
$_SESSION['Email'], it shows as coming from the sender's mail server
(e.g. domain_name@some_weird_name.primary-server.net).

What am I doing wrong?

TIA.

mtimdog

The only difference I see from the man page for [man]mail[/man] is that from looks like
From:{space}
instead of
From :

Also, they include another header for html

//notice the mime header....hmmm
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

/* additional headers */
$headers .= "To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>\r\n";

NoBullMan

Thanks. I tried these changes but still have the same problem.

NoBullMan

It is working now. I believe it did not like:

$headers .= "From :".$_SESSION['Email']."\r\n";

I broke it into:

$headers .= "From :";
$headers .= $_SESSION['Email'];
$headers .= "\r\n";