PHPMailer from is showing as Root User - php

Question

I am using PHP Mailer to send emails and i am using SMTP
here is the code i am using:
$email = new PHPMailer();
$email->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
$email->Host = "mail.integradigital.co.uk"; // SMTP server
$email->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
// 1 = errors and messages
// 2 = messages only
$email->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$email->Host = "mail.integradigital.co.uk"; // sets the SMTP server
$email->Port = 26; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$email->Username = "sending#************.co.uk"; // SMTP account username
$email->Password = "********"; // SMTP account password
$email->SetFrom($result["emailfrom"]);
$email->FromName($result["emailfrom"]);
$email->Subject = $result["subject"];
$email->Body = $result["message"];
but its sending and showing as from Root User - root#localhost
i know i can change this in the class.phpmailer.php file but i want to be able to set it in the code above
is this possible?

Answer 1

Okay, in short:
$email->From = "email.address#gmail.com";
$email->FromName = "Support Team";
This worked out for me.

Answer 2

Wrap the whole thing in a try catch. And initialize phpmailer with exceptions enabled
$email = new PHPMailer(true);
It looks like the default values are used. So something goes wrong when calling setFrom(). And it's failing silently because it returns false without exceptions enabled.
try {
// your mail code here
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
And change the setting of email and from name to:
$email->setFrom($result["emailfrom"], $result["emailfrom"]);
FromName is a property not a method.

Answer 3

class.phpmailer.php file contains the "var $FromName = 'Root User';" section which can be changed to "Desired Name" from "Root User" and have your job done.

Answer 4

Inside your form when you are getting the 1. email and 2. name it should look like this
<input type="text" name="emailfrom">
<input type="text" name="namefrom">
Inside your php code it should look like this.
$mail->setFrom($_POST['emailfrom'],$_POST['namefrom']);
I was having the same issue when I was using these settings on infinityhost I hope this helps.
$mail->Port = 587; // Which port to use, 587 is the default port for TLS security.
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // Which security method to use. TLS is most secure.```

Answer 5

I had this problem when I was sending only the first parameter to setFrom(), as name <email>.
setFrom() did not know how to parse that construction.
Changing to two separate parameters solved the issue.

Answer 6

Use:
$mail->setFrom('here email add of sender','here name of the sender');
First parameter is the email addres if it is empty or not a valid email address it will show as ROOT user while sending mail using php mailer

Answer 7

For PHPMailer Version: 5.1
This worked for me:
$mail->SetFrom('no-reply#example.com', 'Name From');
Hope it works.

Answer 8

Edit your phpmailer.php, changing:
if($mail->Send()){
to:
if (mail($_POST["email"],
$_POST["subject"],
$_POST["message"],
$_POST["sender"])) {
echo'Email Sended';
}
*HTML*
<form action="phpmailer.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="sender" value="From: Support Team<Support#email.com>"/>
</form>
if ($mail->Send()) { is set to Auto root, if you send email and From is not declared at the same time.