mail - "from" not having any effect?

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');

<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
--
Ever had one of those days where you just felt like:
http://cosmoslair.com/BadDay.html ?
(Eating the elephant outside the box, one paradigm at a time)

"Don Freeman" <freemand@sonic.net> wrote in message
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>
> <usenet@isotopeREEMOOVEmedia.com> wrote in message
> news:pg7vi2t0rf1fj0hbk605qju1aqmba5i3un@4ax.com...
>> 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
> --
> Ever had one of those days where you just felt like:
> http://cosmoslair.com/BadDay.html ?
> (Eating the elephant outside the box, one paradigm at a time)
>

This did in fact work, unless I changed something else and corrected an
error at the same time in trying this! \n alone worked fine, I can now spam
myself and pretend it wasn't me :)

Hmm Marnok.com <wizardharry@pottermarnok.com> wrote:
> mail('a@b.com',' test',' hello world', 'From:
> <someone@somewhere.com>');

you should to use headres


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