Email + Setting From/Reply To Field

[obrienkev]

Hi all,

How do I set the from field in an email using PHP?

When the email is sent I want the users name to appear in from field and their email address to appear as Reply To.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

      // create headers
      $headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
      $headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
      $headers .= "From: \n";

  // set variables
  $mailcontent = 'Name: '.$name."\n"
                               .'Email: '.$email."\n"
                              .'Telephone: '.$phone."\n"
                              .'Address: '.$address."\n"
                              .'Comments: '.$comments."\n";

        $subject = 'LA Flowers Contact Form';
  $fromaddress = 'From: '.$email;
        $toaddress = '[e-mail]';

  // remove backslashes
  $mailcontent = Stripslashes($mailcontent);
  $fromaddress = Stripslashes($fromaddress);

         // send email
      $mail = mail($toaddress, $subject, $mailcontent, $headers);

[Houdini]

Kind of like this

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
      $headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
      $headers .= "From: ME <youremailaddress@email,com>\n"; 
      //or
      $headers.="From: youremailaddress@email,com\n"; 

[MarkR]

From, Reply-to and envelope sender are all different things.

"From" and "Reply-to" can be set as normal mail headers. Envelope sender cannot. Normally, setting the envelope sender is done by supplying an extra argument to mail().

This causes it to do sendmail -f - which means that the user PHP runs as typically needs to have special privilege in your MTA config to allow it to specify an arbritary envelope sender. Consult your MTA docs.

Mark