On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Daniel Brown <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:50 PM, 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: >> > [snip!] >> >> 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. > > Jay, try something like this: > > <?php > > $to = "email1@xxxxxxxxxxx"; > > $from = "email2@xxxxxxxxxxx"; > > $subject = "This is a test!"; > > $body = "\tThis is a test email.\n"; > $body .= "That is all."; > > $headers = "From: ".$from."\r\n"; > $headers .= "Reply-To: ".$from."\r\n"; > $headers .= "X-Mailer: ".basename(__FILE__)."-PHP/".phpversion()."\r\n"; > $headers .= "Return-Path: ".$from."\r\n"; > > mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers,'-f'.$from); > ?> > > Note the fifth parameter passed to mail(): > > http://php.net/mail > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > Dedicated Servers - Intel 2.4GHz w/2TB bandwidth/mo. starting at just > $59.99/mo. with no contract! > Dedicated servers, VPS, and hosting from $2.50/mo. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Yep! Just a note on this though. You have to control the domain you're forcing the return-path on or else it will get rejected by a lot of servers because of SPF rules. It has bit my company in the behind quite a bit recently. :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
