[RESOLVED] mail() has wrong sender

[garnetquagga]

Is there something better than using mail()? On both of my web sites that have a mail form, when users send mail the recipient sees it as coming from the site, not from who's in the from: field. 😕 Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Here's the relevant code snippet:

<?php

if (isset($POST['mailsend']))
{
$to="[e-mail]";
$from=$POST['from'];
$subject=$POST['subject'];
$message=$POST['message'];

 mail("$to","$subject","From: $from $message");

?><p><p>
<center>
<b>Your mail has been sent!</b>
</center>
<p><p>
<?php

}

[NogDog]

Set a "Reply-To:" header in the additional headers argument of the mail() command.

$headers = "Reply-To: $from";
mail("$to","$subject","From: $from $message", $headers);

[garnetquagga]

I tried this suggestion. Here's what happened:

Before, the message showed up in the inbox as coming from the server account and when you clicked reply, it replied to the server account. Now it shows up in the inbox as coming from the server account, but replies to the right address, which is the one the user typed in. This occurs when I read the email either in my GoDaddy account or my gmail account where it's cc'd to.

Thanks for the help. Got any more for the other part of the problem? :bemused:

[NogDog]

You could try adding a "From:" header to the additional headers, but 99% of the time a mailserver will not send an email that has a "From:" header which is not a valid email account on that server (in order to prevent anonymous spamming or other email abuse).

[garnetquagga]

Hmmm... I see your point. I tried this code:

$headers = "From: $from";

mail("$to","$subject","$message", $headers);

I got lucky and both of the servers I'm using this code on (GoDaddy and Wonderhosting) seem to allow this and work correctly.

Thanks again for the help. Problem solved.