I'd recommend trying to put the from at the beginning of your headers and check the result. Also I'd verify that $name and $orderResult['email'] contains the data I expect. :-) <>< Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Wolski [mailto:aaronjw@martekbiz.com] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:13 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: From address in mail() header not working - ideas? Sorry for the <OFFTOPIC> post all but I am really stuck to get this done. I can't for the life figure this out. I have a from header set in one piece of code that gets emailed to the merchant. Here si the code: $to = "$merchant_email"; $subject = "New Order on Rinkrake.com"; $long_date = date("r",time()); $headers = "Date: $long_date\r\n"; $headers .= "To: $to\r\n"; $headers .= "X-Mailer: SOME MAIL SERVER\r\n"; $headers = "Return-Path: <$support_email>\r\n"; $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"Message-Boundary\"\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT\r\n"; $headers .= "X-attachments: $attach_name\r\n"; $headers .= "--Message-Boundary\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT\r\n"; $headers .= "$message\r\n"; $headers .= "\n\n--Message-Boundary\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-type: $attach_type; name=\"$attach_name\"\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"$attach_name\"\n\r\n"; $headers .= "$encoded_attach\r\n"; $headers .= "--Message-Boundary--\r\n"; $headers .= "From: $name <".$orderResult['email'].">\r\n"; mail($to, "$subject", "", $headers); The above ALL works except the From header. What I get is the email account of the web user username <username@domainname.com> Now... I have another piece of code that I send to the customer (not the merchant) that looks like this: $headers = "Return-Path: <$support_email>\r\n"; $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; $headers .= "From: The RinkRake <$merchant_email>\r\n"; mail ($orderResult["email"],"Your Order on Rinkrake.com", $message, $headers); This piece of code comes through with NO "from" problems. Its formatted as it should be. Does anyone have any thoughts? Are there only so many headers I can use which is why it doesn't come through in the first one? Thanks all. Aaron -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
