problem with php mail From header

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I m building a website that sends and email to a user when he registers   My code  the gist of it     lt  php  to    helloworld gmail com    subject    Test mail    message    Hello   nThis is a simple email message      headers    From  munged gmail com    headers      r nReply-To  munged gmail com    headers      r nX-Mailer  PHP   phpversion     mail  to  subject  message  headers    echo  Mail Sent      gt     the problem is that when the mail is delivered  the from header remains munged box123 bluehost com  while reply-to gets changed to the specified value   box123 bluehost com is the hostname of the server on which the website is hosted   So what am I doing wrong  What can I do to get the  From  address the same as the reply-to address   Is it something I m doing wrong  or is the web host playing foul

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Edit  I just noted that you are trying to use a gmail address as the from value  This is not going to work  and the ISP is right in overwriting it  If you want to redirect the replies to your outgoing messages  use reply-to   A workaround for valid addresses that works with many ISPs   try adding a fifth parameter to your mail   command    mail  to  subject  message  headers  -f your email here

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It turns out the original poster s server  blueHost  has a FAQ concerning this very question   Article 206     This is because our servers require you  or your script  to use a properly formatted  valid From  field in the email s header  If the From  field is not formatted correctly  empty or the email address does not exist in the cPanel  the From  address will be changed to username box    bluehost com   You must change the script you are using to correctly use a valid From  header   Examples of headers that should work would be      From  user domain com   From   user   lt user domain com    Examples of headers that will NOT work      From   user domain com    From  user   domain com   From  user domain com  lt user domain com      Our servers will not accept the name for the email address and the email address to be the same  It will not accept a double declaration of the email address   For scripts such as Joomla and Wordpress  you will need to follow their documentation for formatting the from fields properly  Wordpress will require the Mail From plugin      Note  The email address you use must be a valid created account in the   cPanel

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The web host is not really playing foul  It s not strictly according to the rules - but compared with some some of the amazing inventions intended to prevent spam  its not a particularly bad one   If you really do want to send mail from   gmail com  why not just use the gmail SMTP service  If you can t reconfigure the server where PHP is running  then there are lots of email wrapper tools out there which allow you to specify a custom SMTP relay phpmailer springs to mind   C

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In order to prevent phishing  some mail servers prevent the From from being rewritten

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I realize this is an old thread  but i had the same problem since i moved to bluehost yesterday  It may not have been the selected answer but i support the bluehost article 206 reply    I created a valid email in control panel and used it as my From address and it worked

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headers were not working for me on my shared hosting  reason was i was using my hotmail email address in header   i created a email on my cpanel and i set that same email in the header yeah it worked like a charm     header    From  ShopFive  lt site mysite org gt       r n

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I solved this by adding email accounts in Cpanel and also adding that same email to the header from field like this    header    From  XXXXXXXX  lt test test org gt       r n

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I had the same Issue  I checked the php net site  And found the right format   This is my updated code     headers    MIME-Version  1 0      r n    headers     Content-type  text html  charset iso-8859-1      r n    headers     From        fromName      lt      fromEmail    gt        r n                 Reply-To       fromEmail     r n                 X-Mailer  PHP     phpversion      The  r n should be in double quotes    itself  the single quotes    will not work

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