RE: corect way to use mail() function

["Daevid Vincent" <daevid@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul M Foster [mailto:paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 8:51 PM
> To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  corect way to use mail() function
> 
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:17:30PM -0600, LAMP wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > The company I work for, hosts online events registration 
> applications.
> > After a registered registered himself for an event he will get a
> > confirmation email saying he registered successfully.
> > Currently, in the header part of the mail(), in "From" it says e.g.
> > orders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - because the email comes from us 
> not from our
> > client (e.g. ABC Assoc.). Reply-to goes to us too.
> >
> > Now one of our clients (e.g. ABC Assoc.) asks us to put in 
> the "from"
> > field their email, to looks like the email comes from them. 
> something
> > like: From: ABC Assoc. <events@xxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> >
> > I refused to do that concerned we are going to be blacklisted for
> > sending "spam". Because header shows one place and From 
> field says other
> > email address - spam way of sending emails.
> >
> > Am I right or it really doesn't matter "who" sent the email?
> 
> Since the mail() function doesn't have a parameter for the 
> "From:", how
> do you force it to be a certain thing in the first place?
> 
> Paul

That's what the headers are for son! :)

	/**
	 * This is the actual 'engine' that does the sending of an SMS or
Email.
	 *
	 * @access  static final
	 * @return  void
	 * @param	string $to the email address to send to
	 * @param	string $subject the subject line of the message
	 * @param	string $body the body of the message
	 * @param	boolean $html use 'html' (true) or 'plain' (false)
	 * @author  Daevid Vincent [daevid.vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
	 * @date   	12/22/09
	 * @see	send_email()
	 */
	static final function email($to, $subject, $body, $html=true)
	{
		$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
		$headers .= "Content-type: text/".( ($html) ? 'html' :
'plain')."; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
		$headers .= "From: ".COMPANY_FULL_NAME.' '.PRODUCT_NAME."
<".PRODUCT_SUPPORT_EMAIL.">\n";
		//$headers .= "Cc: Daevid Vincent
<daevid@".COMPANY_DOMAIN.">\r\n";
		//$headers .= "Bcc: president@xxxxxxxxxxx\r\n";
		//$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$myname."
<".$myreplyemail.">\r\n";
		$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
		$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
		$headers .= "X-Mailer: ".COMPANY_FULL_NAME." Linux Server";

		$body .= "<p>\n\n<i>This is an automated email from host
(".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].") ".$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'].". Do not reply to
it.</i>";
		if (!$html) $body = strip_tags($body);

		mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
	}


	/**
	 * Send this user an HTML email.
	 *
	 * @access	public
	 * @return	boolean
	 * @author	Daevid Vincent [daevid.vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
	 * @date   	12/22/09
	 * @see	User::email()
	 */
	public function send_email($subject, $body)
	{
		$to = $this->get_fullname().' <'.$this->email.'>';
		User::email($to, $subject, $body,
(strtolower($this->emailformat) == 'html') );
		add_user_log('Action', 'Email \''.$subject.'\' sent');
	}


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