Question

I got a contact form that succesfully sends emails to me.

heres the extract:

$_POST['message'] = wordwrap($_POST['message'], 70);
mail ('[e-mail]', $_POST['subject'], $_POST['message'] , $_POST['email']);
echo "<div class='registertext'>Your email was succesfully sent to a member of the administration team. Please wait 24 hours for as to reply and ensure you check your junk mail!<br />To login please click <a href='login.php'>here</a></div>";

The issue I have is, the email gets sent from my host. Not a email I want to specify. How would I overcome this?

Answer 1

You can specify it in the email headers:

$recipient = "[e-mail]";
    $from      = "[e-mail]";
    $replyTo   = "[e-mail]";
    $subject   = "Hi!";
    $text      = "<p>This is a test!<p>";

    $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"
      ."Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n"
      ."Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n"
      ."From: =?UTF-8?B?". base64_encode([Your Name]) ."?= <$from>\r\n"
      ."Reply-To: $replyTo\r\n"
      ."X-Mailer: PHP/". phpversion();

    //send it!
    if (mail($recipients, $subject, $text, $headers, "-f $from")){
        echo "sent";
        } else {
           echo "did not send";
        };

but there’s a good chance it will get caught be SPAM filters. Your best bet in this case would be to use a PHP mailing library that handles SMTP emailing and uses your actual account to send mail (there are several packages that can handle this for you: Pear Mail, and PHP Mailer amongst others.