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Sending Email in PHP

Hi,

I am using the following PHP code to send an email

$to = 'me@hotmail.com';
$from = 'you@yahoo.com';
$subject = "Subject";
$mailbody = "Content"

$mailforms = mail($to, $subject, $mailbody, $from);

Problem is , when i receive an email it has the "From address" set to "Apache" my sever default instead of "you@yahoo.com".How can i resolve this problem?

Thanks in Advance.

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liquidblaze

you would like to code it like this:

mail($receiver,$subject,$message,"From: $sender","X-mailer: $mailclient","X-Priority: $prior_1","X-MSMail-priority:$prior_2"))

where:

$sender would be smthg like you@yourdomain.tld
$mailclient - normally used to pass on that it was mailed from within a php script, but you can set anything here like "my cool mail tool"
$prior_1 would be 1, 2 or 3 with 1 being normal, 2 being medium and 3 being high
$prior_2 is only for microsoft - just have to write normal, medium or high there...

think that should do it
regards liquidblaze

rhei

The problem, that other people on the page tryied to explain is, that the $from parameter of the mail command is not the value of the 'From:' field in the mail header , but it modifies the mailheader lines according to the 'Value_name:' contained in the $from variable - referr to the RFC 2822 (rfc-editor.org) for more information for mail headers.

kamran65536

mail(to, subject, body, "From : from address");

the style is like this, I don't know weather writing "from : " or "From:" is correct or not, but this format works ;)

j79

$to = 'me@hotmail.com';
$from = 'you@yahoo.com';
$subject = "Subject";
$mailbody = "Content"

$mailforms = mail($to, $subject, $mailbody, "From: ".$from."\nReturn-path: <".$from.">\n");

$from can also be given from a html/php form page filled by the visitor.

j79

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