Can't set 'Return-To:' header w/ mail()

Anon

Hello,

I amusing mail() and trying to set the return to path by passing the string "Return-To:$email_address", as on of the header arguments.

However all mail is sent with 'Return-To:<root>' instead of what I passed into mail(). What's up? My ISP says it's sendmail and that I could possibly do something with a php library. What is involved in doing this?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

parena

Just a guess, I can be completely wrong here. In that case, never mind, but... How about using Reply-To: ? Or are those two completely different things?

khaine

Ive never seen the return-to. try using reply-to. X-Sender of the -f option to sendmail.

dannys

mail($recipient,$subject,$message,$headers,"-f$returnAddress"))

That should do it, works here anyway 🙂

BTW, it's return-path not return-to 🙂

dannys

Whoops, don't add that last bracket - damn that cut 'n' paste 🙂

Anon

Can you explain a little what the last header is, I'm not familiar with it.

mail($recipient,$subject,$message,$headers,"-f$returnAddress"))

dannys

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

-f isn't a header, it's an aditional parameter which tells sendmail to override the default return-path and use $returnAddress intead.

You have to use that method AFAIK, since it's added to the headers by Sendmail, it overwrites any 'return-path' header previously added.

Anon

I tried this and had no luck:

"Return-Path:-f$email_address\n"

did I screw it up? What's AFAIK stand for?

dannys

Where did I say type Return-Path?

mail($recipient,$subject,$message,$headers,"-f$returnAddress");

It's simply -freturn@mycompany.com

You don't write it like a header.

Oh, I think you need PHP4.0.5

AFAIK = As Far As I Know
RTFM = Read The F'ing Manual - you really should do that sometime - it has explainations and examples 🙂