> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul M Foster [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 8:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] 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.
> > [email protected] - 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. <[email protected]>;
> >
> > 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 $html use 'html' (true) or 'plain' (false)
* @author Daevid Vincent [[email protected]]
* @date 12/22/09
* @see send_email()
*/
static final function email($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";
//$headers .= "Bcc: [email protected]\r\n";
//$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, $headers);
}
/**
* Send this user an HTML email.
*
* @access public
* @return boolean
* @author Daevid Vincent [[email protected]]
* @date 12/22/09
* @see User::email()
*/
public function send_email($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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