Host name shown in emails - problem?

jontyjonty

Hi.

Im using mail().

When the email arrives at the recipient it displays the my host name. Is there a way of stopping this? ..... and is it a security issue?

Thanks very much.

Jonty

coldwerturkey

read php.net/mail

jontyjonty

Thanks very much. I still cant get it to work. I think I was missing the reply-to header but now that Ive put it in the mail wont send at all. have I made an error? Thanks again. Jonty

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: WEBSITE.COM USER <$row2[pmail]>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: WEBSITE.COM USER <$row2[pmail]>\r\n";

bradgrafelman

Have you tried the following, as per the PHP manual for the mail() function - [man]function.mail[/man]:

PHP Manual wrote:
Note: If messages are not received, try using a LF (\n) only. Some poor quality Unix mail transfer agents replace LF by CRLF automatically (which leads to doubling CR if CRLF is used). This should be a last resort, as it does not comply with » RFC 2822.

shawty

If your setting your mail to header correctly, and your mail from correctly then it's likely your mail server is re-writing it.

I had a similar issue sometime ago where postfix was rewriting headers containing my external domain name, to my local domain name, so when people where replying the mail was failing, unless it was sent inside the network.

Looking at your header construction, you might want to write the last two lines like this:


$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: WEBSITE.COM USER <" . $row2[pmail] . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: WEBSITE.COM USER <" . $row2[pmail] . ">\r\n";

I've always had problems in the past putting array literals directly into strings, and have found i'ts always better to concatenate them using the . operator instead.

I would also check your [pmail] part. if this is a variable name then it should be [$pmail] , if this is a static identifier then it should be ['pmail']

Cheers

Shawty

bradgrafelman

While it is indeed programmer's preference as to which of the various methods to accomplish variable interpolation/concatenation, this:

$headers .= "Reply-To: WEBSITE.COM USER <$row2[pmail]>\r\n";

is one perfectly valid (e.g. no syntax errors/warnings generated) method to insert the value of $row2['pmail'] into the string.

If the e-mail address isn't one on your own domain, however, then you should only use it in the Reply-To header; using it in the From header will likely get you flagged as an open relay and thus blacklisted by many hosts and/or RBL's.