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Sender email and name was not received.
PhpMailer message says email was successfully sent, but I cant get the sender email or sender name. I received only the body and subject.
Thanks
<?php
require 'PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$name = $_POST['fname'];
$mail = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subj'];
$message = $_POST['mssg'];
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP(); // Set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = 'xxxxhost.com'; // Specify main and backup SMTP servers
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'xxxxxx#host.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'xxxxxxxxxxxx'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Enable TLS encryption, `ssl` also accepted
$mail->Port = 25; // TCP port to connect to
$mail->setFrom($mail, $name); // this value not received
// Add a recipient
$mail->addAddress('support#example.com'); // Name is optional
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
if(!$mail->send()) {
echo 'Message could not be sent.';
echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
echo 'Message has been sent';
}
?>

Answer 1

You question isn't very clear, but I'll take a guess at what you're asking.
Don't use the submitter's email address as the From address. It's forgery and will usually mean you get rejected for SPF violations or end up in spam folders. Gmail doesn't let you use arbitrary from addresses for this reason (though you can predefine aliases in gmail prefs) and it will simply use your Username address instead.
Set the submitter's address as a reply-to (see addReplyTo() in PHPMailer) and your own address as the from address. This way you won't be forging anything, and replies will go to the right place. Like this:
$mail->addReplyTo($_POST['email'], $_POST['name']);
$mail->setFrom('me#example.com', 'My Name');
It's a good idea to put those values into the message body as well in case it's an invalid email address due to a simple typo, for example user #example.com. The reply-to will not work, but you'll still have the data.

Answer 2

If you are trying from Gmail server, try this (without tls encryption):
$mail->Host = "mail.xxxhost.com";
$mail->Port = 26;
OR (with tls encryption):
$mail->SMTPSecure = "tls";
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->Port = 587;
May be you need to correct in your code
$mail->host = "mail.xxxhost.com";
from
$mail->host = 'xxxhost.com';