PHP mail() header problem

[gil.r21]

Hi all
I have a hostmonster acount
and in one of my scripts I am sending emails via the mail() function.
I also have email box setup on my account.
The problem is that I am trying to define the headers like this


$header = "MIME-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$header.= "Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 \r\n";
$header.= "From: xxx@email.org\r\n";
$header.= "reply-to: no answer <no-answer@intern.org.il> \r\n";

but when it sends the email I am getting it like from: *email*@host394.hostmonster.com

pls help
Gil

[shadmego]

You said you have email box set up on your account.

Does this mean you have the address "xxx@email.org" created for your account? If not, then you will have to create that address for it to show up in the From field.

~regards

[gil.r21]

Hi
I have an actuall address created for my account
and I am trying to make it show on the emails I send by defining it in the mail header
but it doesn't show on the sent email... instead it shows the email was sent by myusername@hostmonster.com, instead of my existing mailbox assigned to my domain name.

[sjlplat]

Remove the \r from your linefeeds. Carrier Returns are unnecessary for Linux boxes.

Try this:


$header = "From: Your Name <xxx@email.org>\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: no answer <no-answer@intern.org.il>\n";
$header .= "Return-Path: xxx@email.org\n";
$header .= "Envelope-from: xxx@email.org\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/html\n";

[gil.r21]

It works
thanks so much guys

[shadmego]

[QUOTE=sjlplat;32986]Remove the \r from your linefeeds. Carrier Returns are unnecessary for Linux boxes.


That's interesting. I've recently written a fairly massive website (still building) and in using php's mail(), I tried to originally use "\n". It failed to work properly unless I added the "\r\n".

And as I write this, I believe the box I am working on is a Windows box running PHP .... well, there goes this post ....

[sjlplat]

That's interesting. I've recently written a fairly massive website (still building) and in using php's mail(), I tried to originally use "\n". It failed to work properly unless I added the "\r\n".

And as I write this, I believe the box I am working on is a Windows box running PHP .... well, there goes this post ....

Correct. \r is required for Windows boxes. :)