FROM_HEADER problem

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

Hi,

when using mail(), the FROM that I set in my function variables is always
changed. If I set the FROM email to us**@mydomain.com, it is always
replaced to us**@provider.com. I believe its because the provider has the
FROM_HEADER set to provider.com.

is there any way to prevent this? cant I set an alternative from_header
with htaccess or similar?

thanks

Oliver

[Jon Kraft]

Oliver Spiesshofer <ol****@email.com> wrote:

when using mail(), the FROM that I set in my function variables is always
changed. If I set the FROM email to us**@mydomain.com, it is always
replaced to us**@provider.com. I believe its because the provider has the
FROM_HEADER set to provider.com.

is there any way to prevent this? cant I set an alternative from_header
with htaccess or similar?

Hi Oliver,

It would help if you could post which OS you have your script running, and
the code which calls mail().

Cheers;
JOn

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

Jon Kraft <jo*@jonux.co.uk> wrote in
news:bm************@ID-175424.news.uni-berlin.de:

Oliver Spiesshofer <ol****@email.com> wrote:

when using mail(), the FROM that I set in my function variables is
always changed. If I set the FROM email to us**@mydomain.com, it is
always replaced to us**@provider.com. I believe its because the
provider has the FROM_HEADER set to provider.com.

is there any way to prevent this? cant I set an alternative
from_header with htaccess or similar?

Hi Oliver,

It would help if you could post which OS you have your script running,
and the code which calls mail().

Cheers;
JOn

Hi JOn,

its Linux, and the code is:

mail("re*******@somedomain.com", "test subject", "test body text", "From:
username <re******@mydomain.com>");

is there a check whether the mydomain.com is equal to the actual domain?

Oliver

[Jon Kraft]

Oliver Spiesshofer <ol****@email.com> wrote:

Jon Kraft <jo*@jonux.co.uk> wrote:

Oliver Spiesshofer <ol****@email.com> wrote:

when using mail(), the FROM that I set in my function variables is
always changed. If I set the FROM email to us**@mydomain.com, it is
always replaced to us**@provider.com. I believe its because the
provider has the FROM_HEADER set to provider.com.

is there any way to prevent this? cant I set an alternative
from_header with htaccess or similar?

It would help if you could post which OS you have your script running,
and the code which calls mail().

its Linux, and the code is:

mail("re*******@somedomain.com", "test subject", "test body text", "From:
username <re******@mydomain.com>");

Hi Oliver,

Try:

mail("re*******@somedomain.com", "test subject", "test body text", "From:
username <re******@mydomain.com>", "-fre******@mydomain.com");

If this doesn't work, your provider's mail program settings won't allow
changing the "From" header. In doubt get in contact with them directly.

HTH,
JOn