Sending email via PHP: "unknown sender" says gMail?...

Question

Hi all
I am having an issue with email I send through a form, using
php.
The email is sent and everything works fine, except that the
sender is not correctly identified:
gMail lists the email sender as "(unknown sender)", while
other email programs list it as
"[email protected]", which is the account name of the
hosting company...
here's my headers declaration in PHP:
$headers = 'Content-type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1'."\r\n";
$headers .= 'To: '.$to."\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Price Quote Request
<[email protected]>'."\r\n";
$subject = 'Quote Request from MoMAcorporategifts.org
('.date('m.d.y').')';
I assumed that the From line would take care of this, bbut
apparently not...
How can I solve this?
seb ( [email protected])
http://webtrans1.com | high-end web
design
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Answer 1

Joe Makowiec wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2007 in macromedia.dreamweaver, (_seb_) wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I am having an issue with email I send through a
form, using php.
>>
>> The email is sent and everything works fine, except
that the sender
>> is not correctly identified: gMail lists the email
sender as
>> "(unknown sender)", while other email programs list
it as
>> "[email protected]", which is the account
name of the
>> hosting company...
>>
>> here's my headers declaration in PHP:
>>
>> $headers = 'Content-type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1'."\r\n";
>> $headers .= 'To: '.$to."\r\n";
>> $headers .= 'From: Price Quote Request
>> <[email protected]>'."\r\n"; $subject =
'Quote Request from
>> MoMAcorporategifts.org ('.date('m.d.y').')';
>>
>> I assumed that the From line would take care of
this, bbut
>> apparently not...
>>
>> How can I solve this?
>
> Assuming that your mail function is set up correctly,
there are two
> things which look kinda off to me:
> - You're using \r\n in the strings; I've only ever used
newline (\n),
> and that's what the manual calls for
> - If you're setting the function up correctly, you have
two 'to'
> headers (one in the mail function where it belongs; one
in the added
> headers). mail() takes three to five parameters:
>
> bool mail ( string $to, string $subject, string $message
[, string
> $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters]] )
>
> If you include 'To' in additional_headers, it may well
confuse the
> server.
>
>
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
>
I ALWAYS use \r\n for line feeds, for cross-platfrom
compatibility (Windows use \n and ignore \r,
Macs use \r\n)
I tried removing the "to:" from the header, gMail still
displays the received email as "unknown sender"
seb ( [email protected])
http://webtrans1.com | high-end web
design
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