<usenet@isotopeREEMOOVEmedia.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:47:52 +0100, "Marnok.com"
> <wizardharry@pottermarnok.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi again,
>>
>>Trying to send an email today. Sends fine, but the "From:" part is
>>apparently ignored. The message is always "from" the default address for
>>my
>>hosting package.
>>
>>Is this likely to be an ini problem or some setting enforced by my web
>>hosts? Or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>>the whole thing looks like this (names have been changed to protect the
>>innocent, of course)
>>
>>mail('a@b.com',' test',' hello world', 'From: <someone@somewhere.com>');
>>
>>
>>I've also tried
>>'From: someone@somewhere.com');
>>
>
> Append "\r\n" or "\n" as appropriate for your system.
>
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
..
The manual states that the newline is to be added to separate multiple
additional_headers and example 3 only shows a newline after the first 2 but
not after the third and last one. The OP only has one additional header so
I am curious as to whether this worked or not for them.

Thanks,
-Don
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