email form , the sender shows up as "me@locahost" in my email, can i change that?

i have a pretty basic php email form, but for some reason when it sends the email , the "from" address shows up as "me@locahost.com" is there a way i can change that to something else?

Thanks.

 

If you're just using the php mail() function, this is how you're supposed to do it:

<?php
$to      = 'nobody@example.com';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n" .
    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

PHP:

If you're not, post the code sample here.

 

AKA, you have to add the optional header parameter for the mail function.
As given above, 'From: ', can be used to define the sender.

 

I see , thanks a lot I will try this

 

After you got this working, i think you can checkout this class http://phpmailer.worxware.com/