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cmxflash
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:16 pm    Post subject: Sending emails with my real name Reply with quote
I've been playing around with mail() for a little while now. I'm using this row to send an email to whoever requests a new password:

mail($sqlitedata['email'], "Forgotten password", "Your new password: " . $newpw, "from: password@2q4u.com");

That script works. Still, I would like it if I could write "Password recovery" as the sender, so it will show up in the list instead of the email-address.

I've tried replacing password@2q4u.com with "Password recovery" <password@2q4u.com>, but that didn't work. PHP just keeps returning false on mail().

Does anybody have any idea of what I should put in the email header?

Last edited by cmxflash on Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:20 pm; edited 1 time in total
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Try this...

"From: Password recovery <password@2q4u.com>"
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:18 pm    Post subject: Re: Sending emails with my real name Reply with quote
cmxflash wrote:
I've been playing around with mail() for a little while now. I'm using this row to send an email to whoever requests a new password:

mail($sqlitedata['email'], "Forgotten password", "Your new password: " . $newpw, "from: password@2q4u.com");

That script works. Still, I would like it if I could write "Passwprd recovery" as the sender, so it will show up in the list instead of the email-address.

I've tried replacing password@2q4u.com with "Password recovery" <password@2q4u.com>, but that didn't work. PHP just keeps returning false on mail().

Does anybody have any idea of what I should put in the email header?


Have you tried adding a new line (\n or \r\n) to the end of the from header?

I also found this on php.net
Quote:
Note: The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation. First, it doesn't use a local binary for composing messages but only operates on direct sockets which means a MTA is needed listening on a network socket (which can either on the localhost or a remote machine).

Second, the custom headers like From:, Cc:, Bcc: and Date: are not interpreted by the MTA in the first place, but are parsed by PHP.

As such, the to parameter should not be an address in the form of "Something <someone@example.com>". The mail command may not parse this properly while talking with the MTA.

source: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

I am guessing that this applies to the other headers
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cmxflash
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Sending emails with my real name Reply with quote
roganty wrote:
Have you tried adding a new line (\n or \r\n) to the end of the from header?


Yes, I've tried that. In fact, I've tried every single example I could find in the documentation. Nothing seems to work.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I /know/ using "From: Symphonics <symphonics@inter.net>\r\n" works.
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cmxflash
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
MonkeyNation wrote:
I /know/ using "From: Symphonics <symphonics@inter.net>\r\n" works.


Dosn't work.

Here's the code I tried:
Code:
<?php
mail("nospam@elev.it-gymnasiet.se", "Some boring subject", "Aprelium rocks", "From: Cmxflash <cmx@microsoft.com>\r\n");
?>


However, this one works for some reason:
Code:
<?php
mail("nospam@elev.it-gymnasiet.se", "Some boring subject", "Aprelium rocks", "From: <cmx@microsoft.com>\r\n");
?>
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
it would sound like you need to write a whole new command line just replacing a command with a new command when its not a normal part of that line dont seem it works that way so it does seem you need to write a new command there not just replace a command.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
cmxflash,

Here is a part of the code we use to send emails to our customers:

Code:
function send_message($from, $to, $subject, $message)
{      
   return (mail($to, $subject, $message,
      "From: \"Aprelium Technologies\" <$from>\n"      
      . "Reply-To: \"Aprelium Technologies\" <$from>\n"   
      . "Return-Path: \"Aprelium Technologies\" <$from>\n"
      . "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
      . "Organization: Aprelium Technologies\n"
      . "X-Priority: 3\n"
      . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed\n"
      . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n","-f$from")==1);
}

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cmxflash
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
aprelium wrote:
cmxflash,

Here is a part of the code we use to send emails to our customers:

Code:
function send_message($from, $to, $subject, $message)
{      
   return (mail($to, $subject, $message,
      "From: \"Aprelium Technologies\" <$from>\n"      
      . "Reply-To: \"Aprelium Technologies\" <$from>\n"   
      . "Return-Path: \"Aprelium Technologies\" <$from>\n"
      . "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
      . "Organization: Aprelium Technologies\n"
      . "X-Priority: 3\n"
      . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed\n"
      . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n","-f$from")==1);
}


Tried that out, doesn't seems to work on Windows. However, it works on a *nix machine I have access to.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Which operating system are you using and which SMTPd?
Check the SMTPd's logs to see if it was sendmail that rejected it or the SMTPd.

"From: Symphonics <symphonics@inter.net>\r\n" works with my mail server however, which runs hMailServer on win32.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A friend got it working, we're now able to spoof emails on our school network. :)

Here's the code:
Code:
<?php

$emailaddress="x@elev.it-gymnasiet.se";

$emailsubject="Vad säger du nu då n00b?";

$headers .= 'From: Anna Könberg'.$eol;

$msg = "LOLAD!";

ini_set(sendmail_from,'hehe@hehe.com');
mail($emailaddress, $emailsubject, $msg, $headers);
ini_restore(sendmail_from);
?>


Credits to Ducken^.
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