Email Inbox Error

[ryanhouston]

Why does the emails in my inbox sent from my contact form have "nobody@gigenic.t55.us" and not what the user entered into the "email" feild ? i use the following code to send my mail.

mail($toemail,$subject,"From: $name <$emailaddress>");

any ideas are welcome thanks (L]

[wige]

Assuming that the script is PHP, you are missing a field. The mail function arguments are as follows:

bool mail( $to, $subject, $body, $headers)

The bool that is returned is true if the e-mail was successfully passed on to the sendmail daemon. The to field is the e-mail address where the e-mail is to be sent, $subject and $body should be self-explanatory, and $headers is where you enter the various headers. Each header needs to be seperated with "\r\n". This is where you should be specifying the sender e-mail address.

nobody@yourserver.tld is the default user for your web server application. This automatically gets added as the return-path, since that is the user that originated the e-mail. However, if a From: is entered in the fourth parameter, it will override the return-path and that will not be visible unless the recipient manually views the headers.

[ryanhouston]

what does the $body part do to my script

bool mail( $to, $subject, $body, $headers)

[chrisJumbo]

$body is the string that contains the body or text of your message.

For us we concatenate various items we are asking the visitor to complete:

ie,


$body = $body . "Phone: " . $_POST['phone'] . PHP_EOL;
$body = $body . "Term: " . $_POST['term'] . PHP_EOL;
$body = $body . "Inv: " . $_POST['investment'] . PHP_EOL;
$body = $body . "Hear: " . $_POST['hear'] . PHP_EOL;


Hope that helps.

[ryanhouston]

yes i understand but i don't see how that will help my problem. look at the highlighted email in the image below i want the unkowen sender bit to say a value that they entered.

[chrisJumbo]

Whatever image you had posted didn't come through.

We have an email field on our form and add it to the $body.

$body = $body . PHP_EOL . $email;

When I get the contact email it has the details I noted above in my first reply plus the from email address.

If you want to see the form check it out from the links in the signature.

Send me a message, and I'll be happy to send you the code.

I do some processing on the text to try to catch various nefarious hacking attempts.

cd :O)

[wige]

The e-mail address has to be put in the headers area, formatted as "From: a@b.c\r\n" so that it gets put into the headers. Otherwise it will simply be added to the end of the message.

[ryanhouston]

I Have Found My Problem No further Help Needed By Me In This Topic Thank Guys