PHP's mail() function

[Karl]

Try using X-From: Your Name <[email protected]> as the header. I can't remember off hand if it works or not.

[Shoe]

Originally posted by bmurray
I think when you are running PHP as an Apache mod it shows up as nobody due to the PHP being considered user "nobody" by the server while it is running.

When running PHP as CGI, the user shows up correctly due to how it runs.

This would account for some people having different results, depending on their particular server config. I can't help as far as a solution though...I have not yet studied or used any of PHP's mail functions.


Ben

Change nobody to somebody

[psx-dude]

Not working for me either

This isn't working for me either!!!!

I shortened it to:

mail("$sendto", "$subject", "$message");

and it still doesn't work

[Kier]

This works for me:

$to_address = "My Friend <[email protected]>";
$subject = "Hello there";
$from_address = "From: My Name <[email protected]>";
$message_body = "bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.";

mail($to_address,$subject,$message_body,$from_address); 

[Nicholas Brown]

Originally posted by Kier
This works for me:

$to_address = "My Friend <[email protected]>";
$subject = "Hello there";
$from_address = "From: My Name <[email protected]>";
$message_body = "bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.";

mail($to_address,$subject,$message_body,$from_address); 

Yep - That works for me too.
I tried it on a number of free services along with some of the Paid Servers.