Re: PHP's mail(): proper way to send a 'From' header

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You missed the period in your header to join the name and the line break??

'From: webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx' . "\r\n"
On 7/7/08, Jay Moore <jaymoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Greetings folks. I seem to be having a problem with PHP's mail() function
> and sending 'From' headers properly. Here's my setup:
>
> I have a site I set up for a client that has a form their clients can fill
> out to submit some data. When the form is submitted, I have PHP gather the
> data and create the body of an email which is then sent to both the owners
> of the site and back to the person who submitted the data. Because the
> server hosts multiple sites, I am sending an additional 'From' header so the
> email doesn't appear to come from the hostname of the server itself (
> nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx).
>
> Because I did not have a DNS entry for my hostname, the 'domain does not
> exist' error I'm seeing in the bounce emails is correct. I do not wish to
> keep a DNS entry for it (I have added one as a temporary fix), as that
> doesn't fix the 'From' header issue to begin with, so I would appreciate it
> if you did not make that suggestion.
>
> As per PHP's documentation of the mail() function, I am sending the header
> like so:
>
> "From:  sender@xxxxxxxxxxxxx\r\n"
>
> I am getting bounce emails from certain ISPs (AOL, Roadrunner, some local
> ISPs) saying the sender's domain does not exist. It seems that either mails
> are coming from my hostname (nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx), or those ISPs are
> reading the additional headers incorrectly. Unfortunately, this is not
> acceptable. People aren't getting their emails, and the hammer is coming
> down on me.
>
> As far as I know (based on the lack of bounce emails), this worked fine on
> PHP4, but with our new webserver (running PHP5), I'm experiencing problems.
> Far as I can tell, the mail() function has not changed between versions.
>
> I'm stumped here and need to get this fixed asap. I've tried 'From' and
> 'FROM', tried a 'Name Here <name@xxxxxxx>' format, and tried terminating
> with double newlines with and without the carriage return. Nothing seems to
> work. I've even gone so far as to edit php.ini with a default from address,
> but that doesn't appear to have fixed anything either.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jay
>
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