mail function in php not sending headers

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I brought a shared sever, and got a little storage space. When i run my web site, the mail function works perfectly. Mail has been sent with subject and message to all receivers. But the mail which is sent mentioned "From : ". Headers what i included are not working. I want to send with my headers Eg:Form: [email protected] . How can i do it?

<?php
$output="";
if(isset($_POST['submit']) && !empty($_POST['message']))
{
    $sub=$_POST['subject'];
    $msg=$_POST['message'];
    $sql = "select email from login where status='client'";
    $query = mysqli_query($con,$sql);

    $to=array();

    while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($query))
    {
        $to[] = $row['email'];
        $parts = implode(',',$to);
        $headers = 'From: [email protected];';
        $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
        $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
        $subject = $sub;
        $content = $msg;    
    }

    if(mail($parts,$subject,$content,$headers))
    {
        $output="mail sent";
    }
    else
    {
        $output="Error in connection, Mail could not be sent. Please try again";
    }

}
?>

Tarquin · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-05 07:38:27Z

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You need to manually specify the headers, this is the function I use and it delivers to pretty much every provider beautifully. The headers you want are From: and Reply-To: and I also advise the X-Mailer follows what is seen here, I found it years ago via SO as well.

<?php
    $to      = "[email protected]";                                
    $headers = 'From: My Name <[email protected]>' . "\r\n" .
               'Reply-To: My Name <[email protected]>' . "\r\n" .
               'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
               'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
    $subject = "My subject line here";
    $message = 'Message HTML and Content Here.';

    if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
        // Success Here
    }else{
        // Failed Here
    }
?>

I am not 100% certain it will work for you as I am on a dedicated machine, having said that - I do use it on multiple domains and have never messed with my Apache or php configuration in relation to mail settings.

Read More about the Mail function in PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

edited Jun 5, 2015 at 7:38

answered Jun 5, 2015 at 7:03

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Tarquin Over a year ago

BCC is simply another line within the headers variable, except instead of 'From: ' you will put 'Bcc: ' - It is of my understanding that these are CASE sensitive. CC is the same 'Cc: ' (I have updated my answer to include a link to the PHP documentation on the matter.

Avinash · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-05 07:44:05Z

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You can try below code, just ripped from php.net

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <[email protected]>, Kelly <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: [email protected]' . "\r\n";

Off topic but good to use PHPMailer.

answered Jun 5, 2015 at 7:44

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