PHPMailer On Behalf Of

[thehuby]

Does anyone know how I can send an email using PHPMailer (or similar)
and have it send 'on behalf of' someone.

This is for a tell a friend feature on a website (I am trying to mimic
the way that the BBC website does it as I believe this will help with
the more strict spam filters). I know I could just send the email
directly from our sites email address, but that would stop the
recipient being able to reply to the friend sending the email.

I hope that makes sense!

Regards,

Rick

[NC]

thehuby wrote:

>
Does anyone know how I can send an email using
PHPMailer (or similar) and have it send 'on behalf of'
someone.

There are things beyond PHP here. Your outgoing mail server must
permit this. Many hosting companies do not allow sending mail with
"From:" headers containing addresses that do not belong to the domain
being hosted.

If this is not a problem, there are plenty of examples at phpMailer Web
site:

http://phpmailer.sf.net/

Cheers,
NC

[Alvaro G. Vicario]

*** thehuby escribió/wrote (8 Sep 2006 04:24:10 -0700):

Does anyone know how I can send an email using PHPMailer (or similar)
and have it send 'on behalf of' someone.

This is for a tell a friend feature on a website (I am trying to mimic
the way that the BBC website does it as I believe this will help with
the more strict spam filters). I know I could just send the email
directly from our sites email address, but that would stop the
recipient being able to reply to the friend sending the email.

Since it is your web site the one that's actually sending the message, I'd
put your site's e-mail in the "From" field and the visitor's address in the
"Reply-to" field, along with a brief explanation.
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[thehuby]

Thanks for the suggestions - I have gone with the Reply To option for
simplicity.

Very simple using PHPMailer - I doubt my host would have changed their
mail system settings for me!

Rick

Alvaro G. Vicario wrote:

*** thehuby escribió/wrote (8 Sep 2006 04:24:10 -0700):

Does anyone know how I can send an email using PHPMailer (or similar)
and have it send 'on behalf of' someone.

This is for a tell a friend feature on a website (I am trying to mimic
the way that the BBC website does it as I believe this will help with
the more strict spam filters). I know I could just send the email
directly from our sites email address, but that would stop the
recipient being able to reply to the friend sending the email.

Since it is your web site the one that's actually sending the message, I'd
put your site's e-mail in the "From" field and the visitor's address in the
"Reply-to" field, along with a brief explanation.
--
-+ http://alvaro.es - Álvaro G. Vicario - Burgos, Spain
++ Mi sitio sobre programación web: http://bits.demogracia.com
+- Mi web de humor con rayos UVA: http://www.demogracia.com
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