Php Mail Problem

Question

I have a problem with one of the websites i'm administrating. All emails sent from the website have this email address at the top: php5.2.4.winX@glodns.net How can i get rid of it.

Answer 1

You need to set the from address - You just need a "From: you@example.com" in the mail() function's headers argument.

Answer 2

The answers already given about an additional from: header may not work at all if the sendmail application on your server is not propertly configured.

From the website php.net (http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php#72715):

To change the envelope "from" address on unix, you specify an "-r" option to your sendmail binary. You can do this globally in php.ini by adding the "-r" option to the "sendmail_path" command line. You can also do it programmatically from within PHP by passing "-r address@domain.com" as the "additional_parameters" argument to the mail() function (the 5th argument). If you specify an address both places, the sendmail binary will be called with two "-r" options, which may have undefined behavior depending on your sendmail implementation. With the Postfix MTA, later "-r" options silently override earlier options, making it possible to set a global default and still get sensible behavior when you try to override it locally.

On Windows, the the situation is a lot simpler. The envelope "from" address there is just the value of "sendmail_from" in the php.ini file. You can override it locally with ini_set().

Answer 3

see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

This function you can pass additional headers. What you need to do is add an additional header as follows:

"From: <youremail@example.com>" 

OR:

set a default in your php.ini:

sendmail_from = me@myserver.com

Answer 4

The mail() function accepts a $additionl_headers parameter, use it to pass the 'From: ' header:

mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: webmaster@example.com");