[Resolved] Sending email with PHP

[microbluechip]

Hi all,

For the past 12 months my application has been using the mail() function to send emails using email addresses in the format of :-

[e-mail]

However with the advent of antispam engines and the like I should be sending emails as :-

"Firstname Lastname" <[e-mail]>

Can anyone point me in the right direction for achieving this using the mail() function as it always complains in the php error log about invalid syntax. I have escaped the quotes and still no luck.

Alternatively do I need to use a different mailer method i.e. something other than the mail() function??? The interface is to sendmail.

[drew010]

try it like this and see what happens...

$to = "[e-mail]";
$name = "Someone Somewhere";

mail("", "Subject here", "message", "To: \"$name\" <$to>\r\nFrom: \"Your Name\" <[e-mail]>");

[microbluechip]

I didn't think about just setting the headers. Will give that a try.

[drew010]

if you are on a *nix os apparently you can pass an rfc2822 formatted address in the to parameter, but not on windows.

i havnt visited the mail function man page in a while but when i did the other day this part was new..

to

Receiver, or receivers of the mail.

The formatting of this string must comply with RFC 2822. Some examples are:

[email][e-mail][/email]
[email][e-mail][/email], [email][e-mail][/email]
User <[e-mail]>
User <[e-mail]>, Another User <[e-mail]>

im not sure if this works for all version or just the latest 4.3.11. but you can try my method too as it worked ok.