I'd agree with Ryan. Put the From: line after the To: line and it will, with 99% surity, be there. Right now you are sticking it way at the end of the email, after you've started your "message" even though it is still technically headers. Peter On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Ryan Jameson (USA) wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Systems Engineer, Fairfax Cable Access Corporation beckman@purplecow.com http://www.purplecow.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
