[thelist] PHP mail headers

Wed Sep 26 12:20:32 CDT 2001

I think you'll need two \n's after the headers.

Here's how I do it:

<?php
$sendto   = "postmaster at 127.0.0.1";
$subject  = "Test HTML email";
$headers  = "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
$headers .= "From: George <president at whitehouse.gov>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-to: George <president at whitehouse.gov>\n";
$headers .= "\n";
$message  = "<html>";
$message .= "<head>";
# more message
$message .= "</html>";
mail ($sendto, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

This works fine with PHP 4.0.6, Linux 2.4.5, and Sendmail 8.9.something -
give me a shout if it chokes on your setup.

Cheers
Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: // kerin | airside.co.uk [mailto:kerin at airside.co.uk]
Sent: 26 September 2001 16:23
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] PHP mail headers

Hi everyone,

I'm using PHP to send out mail using the mail() function.

Here's a snippet of my code:

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result)) {
     $email = $row["email"];
     $firstname = $row["firstname"];
     $secondname = $row["secondname"];

     $headers ="From: mailinglist at pauloakenfold.com\r\nReply-To: 
mailinglist at pauloakenfold.com\r\nTo: '".$firstname." ".$secondname."' 
<".$email.">";

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

now, the mail sounds out fine, except that the mail headers don't 
work. The most important of these is the From: field. At the minute, 
the From field in the received email is our ISPs equivalent of 
root at localhost - not desirable.

I've tried every permutation on the From field I can think of -

from: mailinglist at pauloakenfold.com <pauloakenfold.com>
from: pauloakenfold.com <mailinglist at pauloakenfold.com>
from: mailinglist at pauloakenfold.com
from: <mailinglist at pauloakenfold.com>

And I still get root at localhost in the From: field.

Oh, and all of my so-called "header" fields just get dumped in the 
message body.

Where am I going wrong?

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