PHP mail() function not using "from" address

Question

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Auction Registration Confirmation";
$from = "From: [email protected]";
$body = "Test Message";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $from)) {
    echo("<b>Message sent</b>");
    header( "Location: http://www.mydomain.com/thankyou.html" );
}  else {
    echo("<b>Message failed</b>");
}

Now the problem is that when an email is sent, the from address is not what I require, but the server login name.

Any ideas as to replace the server login name with the from email id.

Answer 1

There doesn't look to be anything wrong with your PHP code - I have very similar code doing the same job and it works fine.

Possibly there's something misconfigured with your email setup?

Answer 2

The PHP mail function relies on the MTA running on your server. I would bet that your MTA is setup to force the $from variable to your login name.

Answer 3

This might help you:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179014/how-to-change-envelope-from-address-using-php-mail

Answer 4

did you try this? it works for me fine

<?php
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "subject";
$message = "message";
$from = "[email protected]";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>

Answer 5

YOu could try

mail($to, $subject, $body, $from, "-f $from");

this works in some configurations, really depending on the server setup. Otherwise, edit your MTA settings as recommended above, or skip mail() altogether and use a class like PHPmailer that connects directly to the SMTP server.