I'm working on a web application. A user will create an email message that will be sent to another person.
I would like the e-mail that gets sent to appear from the user's name and e-mail address of the user on my system. And if they reply to the e-mail then it should go directly to the sender's email address.
However I am worried about the email message looking like spam to email filters along the way.
Is there a proper way to do this?
I noticed on a "contact" page on a WordPress blog that something very similar is done. The e-mail headers look like:
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Test Blog] =?UTF-8?B?aGVsbA==?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
From:=?UTF-8?B?aGVsbA==?=<[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 23:47:37 +0000 (UTC)
Return-Path: [email protected]
What is interesting is that the display name in the "from" tag and the name that shows up in the subject line is encoded. I do not know if this helps with the spam filters or not, but thought it was at least worth mentioning.
Also, who would receive an undeliverable notification in this example? Would it go to [email protected] or would it go to [email protected]?