PHPMailer On Behalf Of

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

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

*** 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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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
> --