Question

I can send an email via cakephp 1.3. What I cannot seem to do is change the “from” portion – so!

Given:

 $this->Email->from = "[e-mail]"; 
//OR
 $this->Email->from = "no-reply<[e-mail]>"; 
...
$this->Email->send();
...

this doesn’t work. Sending to gmail just has a fun “unknown user” value as the “from” or “sender”.

To be clear, I have only one of those $this->Email->from lines, not both!

In the end, I had to go to the email.ctp component in cakephp – cake/libs/controller/component/email.ctp – and change the line 543 from:
$headers[‘From’] = $this->_formatAddress($this->from);
to:
$headers[‘From’] = ‘no-reply’;

Any ideas why i has to do all this? I read online about the aliases file and some sort of setting in the php.ini – i’m running ubuntu 10.04 – but i didn’t touch them.
Actually, if anyone knows what I would do with the /etc/aliases file, or what to do with the php.ini file, that would also be awesome.

cheers!

PS note in the above that my email component is defined as:

'Email' => array (
    "delivery"=>"mail",
)

Answer 1

Your first example should work. However, the second is not up to the RFC standard. You need the all important space.

$this->Email->from = "no-reply <[e-mail]>";

Check the Cake Book form more detail on the Email component.