qmail-inject parameteres: from and date

[mikerh9]

This is qmail-inject function sends email.

Date format is $date = date("m:d:Y");
#1. When I receive email, date is incrrect year 2086. something like that. What format date should be?
#2. Why $from = "John Smith [e-mail]" is not working. The "from" parameter is wrong . How to pass "from" parameter to the script?

Function is below

function
qmail_inject($from,$to,$subject,$msg) {

if ( $fh = popen("/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -f$from", 'w') ) {
$date = date("m:d:Y");
$content="Return-Path: ".$from."\n";
$content.="Date: ".$date."\n";
$content.="From: ".$from."\n";
$content.="Subject: ".$subject."\n";
$content.="Sender: ".$from."\n";
$content.="To: ".$to."\n";
$content.=$msg."\n";

fputs ($fh, $content);

if ( ($qmail_exit = pclose($fh)) != 0 ) {
return FALSE;
}
return TRUE;

} else
return FALSE;

}

[bradgrafelman]

I believe the 'date' string you want to use is date('r') as 'r' uses the RFC 2822 compliant date format.

As to your 'From' question.. should it instead be like "John Smith <[e-mail]>" (using the <>'s)? I'm not sure, but give that a try.

[mikerh9]

date("r") is working but the time is 4 hours ahead.
Is there a way to fix the problem?

time on the server 2:30 in the email 6:30.

TH

[bradgrafelman]

You sure the server time is correct? Are you in a different timezone? Is the server timezone correct?

If you'd rather manually correct the for hours difference, try this:

$date = date('r', strtotime('-4 hours'));

[mikerh9]

date
Sun May 1 18:36:17 EDT 2005

This time I have on linux box get. Timezone New York.