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Asked: 2026-06-04T18:07:55+00:00

I’m trying to send email from PHP, and although it’s working, I’m noticing that

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I’m trying to send email from PHP, and although it’s working, I’m noticing that I’m getting a lot of extra stuff in the “from” part of the email. The extra stuff, I’m assuming, is
information from my server?

For example, if $from = "myname", instead of "myname" only coming through in the email from field as is, I get something like:

myname@p3nlhg.phx3.secureserver.net

Here is my PHP I’m playing with, the important part being my $from var:

$from = "myname";

mail($to,$formSubj,$formMssg,$from);

Honestly that’s all I have, nothing more or less (as far as the $from is concerned). How can I clean this up or make it so that only the plain value of $from, which is in this case "myname", comes out?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The 4th parameter of the mail function doesn’t work this way. It expect header information. To achieve what you want to do use:

    $header = "From: myname <no-reply@test.com> \r\n";
mail($to,$formSubj,$formMssg,$header);

    You shouldn’t use a lonely myname either. You need a valid email addess string: myname <no-reply@test.com> or no-reply@test.com. If you just put myname, PHP will try to interpret it as an email address. That’s why you’re getting myname@p3nlhg.phx3.secureserver.net. p3nlhg.phx3.secureserver.net must be the hostname of your server.

    A nice thing about the header parameter is that you can use it to specify other less common fields. e.g.:

    $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

    Notice that you need to place a carriage-return/line-feed (\r\n) at the end of each header attribute. A simple line feed will not work.

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