Email form mail arrives from nobody....

On my email form the mail arrives but from

Using Apache server running PHP Version 4.3.10.

I've changed the .htaccess file to show:

php_value sendmail_from

My send mail PHP fileis like this, have taken out most of the error correction etc..

ini_set ("sendmail_from", "mail@domain.com");
$email = 'mail@domain.com'; // CHANGED TO AVOID SPAM
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$from = $_POST['from']; //persons email address
$name = $_POST['name'];
$from_check = $_POST['from_check'];
$tel = $_POST['tel'];

  $message = "Additional Requests:   ".$message;
  $message .= "\nName:   ".$name;
  $message .= "\nTel:   ".$tel;
  $message .= "\nEmail address 2 (could be different):   ".$from_check;

(mail($email, $subject, $from, $message))

PHP:

Still mail arrive from nobody.....

Thanks for anyhelp.

Ian

 

as it is, your mail command will always send the email to 'mail@domain.com'. if the $from variable is not set, the email that is sent to you will have a "nobody", "unknown", etc. as the sender of the email... which seems to be the case you're experiencing.

are you sure your visitors are filling in the "from" field? do you validate to ensure that that field is not empty?

 

Daboss,

The $from is validated and is only used in the context of who the message is send from is $from a reserved word/command?

The problem is when I do testing, so not a user problem...as the page is not given to anyone.

Even when I put (of course the real email address) in the from box, mail still arrives from nobody...I don't want it to show it has come from the person who sent it, but I want it to show that my email address has sent it and it not to show as

**Could you edit your reply to show to prevent SPAM....Thanks...**

Cheers Ian

 

This is how I got the From to work.

$EMAIL equals your $from.

    $mailtext = 'whatever';
    $mailto = 'enquiries@oursite.co.uk';

    $mailsubject = 'Us - Contact us enquiry';

    $mailheaders = "From: $NAME Enquiry <$EMAIL>\r\n";
    $mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $EMAIL\r\n";
    $mailheaders .= "Return-Path: $EMAIL\n";

    if ($errormessage == '')
    {
       mail($mailto,$mailsubject,$mailtext,$mailheaders);
       header('Location: /thanks.shtml');
       exit;
    }

PHP:

 

If you have access to the SMTP server logs, take look at what values the PHP client used and what the server replied. If you can get a detailed log (i.e. with MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO:, etc), this will show you what's going on.

J.D.

 

Have got it to work by this:

$headers = "From: ". $_POST['from'] ."\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". $_POST['from'] ."\r\n";

Thanks for all your help...BUT I still can't get the rerturn-path to cahnge from

Still that's not the end of the world...so am a happy bunny...thanks to DP

Ian

 

Hi Ian ok,

I'm a relative newbee to php and the mail() function. For several months I have been using a simple confirmation script in php from an html form. The email has been sending great for ages but now I find that certain email addresses are not getting any confirmation email (registration details). I can test it by sending a test registration to myself - this again works fine. However, if I use another of my (private) email accounts, the email never arrives.

Here's an extract of my code:-

if ($action == "SEND") {

ini_set ("sendmail_from", "mail@domain.com"); // changed for spam reasons!

$from = "mail@2domain.com"; // changed
$returnpath = "my email address"; // changed
$replyto = "my email address"; // changed
$name = "My domain";
//$name = $_POST['name'];
$mailheader = "From: $name <$mailto>\r\nReturn-path: $returnpath\r\nReply-to: $replyto\r\n";
$mailto = $_POST['mailto']; // mailto is the email field in the html form
$subject = "Mail Test";
//$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = "Hello World!";
//$message = $_POST['message'];

mail($mailto,$subject,$message,$mailheader);


This sends to any email account (catch-all) on any of my hosted domains. I am sending from one of these domains.

The Return-path always shows as nobody@server2 etc......


Any thoughts? I seem to have tried everything that I have seen in forums but with no joy!

Cheers,

Blacklab

 

The return I couldn't ever get to change, guess it's a server issue. Can not just set up a auto reply on the email address.

Ian

 

so you got it all working now?