I use the php::mail() function in my scripts to send out emails from the server. While I can change the From header, the sender still shows as a default address from the hosting server (something#server.thehost.com)
Where in the cpanel settings can I change this address?
Thanks.
Try using the fifth mail() argument: '-f your#sender.address'
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I will be using G Suite (formally Google Apps) to host the email of a site that runs off a separate host.
However, there is a contact form on the website, I haven't looked at it yet, but I assume it will use the standard mail() function.
As I understand it mail() will still use the servers mail server to send the mail, it may be a dumb question, but I assume this won't cause any spam detection issues because of this? Like, I know some servers won't accept mail if the From and/or Sender headers don't match the server it is coming from (or in some cases if the email you set in these headers doesn't exist).
So, if the mail is hosted on G Suite, and the email address that is setup in the From/Sender headers exists on G Suite this won't cause any issues correct?
Lastly, I know it's probably a better idea to use SMTP to send the mail via Google, but I may not have that choice, so I wanted to find out the answer to the above just in-case.
Edit: As per Nima's answer, is this something that can be avoided, or only with using Googles SMTP server to send with?
If you want it simple, then simple use SMTP.
Because of spam, multiple mail server provider are blocking mails from mail servers that have no correct RDNS (Reverse DNS) and MTA name configured.
You want to make sure that all three names are matching according to your MX Record:
Sender Hostname (e.g *mail#demohost.com, note that from can be what ever you want)
MTA-Name/HELO-Hostname (Configured in Mailserver, e.g demohost.com)
RDNS (Basicly it gives per IP-Adress the Hostname (e.g 42.42.42.42 -> demohost.com)
Also make sure your php.ini has the correct configuration for your Mail Server. Congrats you can now send Mails using mail(...).
As I said, it's probably most simple by just using SMTP. Assign the hard work to a hoster.
When you use GSUITE for hosting emails, it's obvious that you will be providing some domain name to GSUITE.
Now emails are marked spam and not spam based on the content as well as certificates of sending server and sending servers have different services for Transactional and Marketing Oriented emails. And GSUITE only provide transactional mail service, and transactional mails from a mail service --having valid certificates and not black listed-- lands directly into Inbox or Other Label, but Spam/Promotion.
Now GSUITE is having all correct certificates and I don't think there is any consumer oriented mail service provider, which blocks emails coming from google servers.
Other Question:-
Does the From Address in E-MAIL headers matters?
Upto now I have never seen from address impacting anything on receiving servers, but some consumer mail services block the usage of from address other than the account email address, just like mobile operators don't let us use someone else's caller id(Ideally).
But mail service providers to businesses let you use any address as from value in e-mail headers.
Edit:-
If you are still unsure about delivery of emails, you can use replyTo header with out any problem.
PS:- I have tested this myself with thousands of emails but using SendGrid servers.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
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).
On linux the sendmail executable is used to talk to the SMTP server configured on windows you can / could configure mail() function to use SMTP
So the best way is to use SMTP directly to send the email to Gmail to send the email.
Taken from:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/33506709/623150
Here is a way to do it with PHP PEAR
// Pear Mail Library
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = '<your#mail.com>'; //change this to your email address
$to = '<someone#mail.com>'; // change to address
$subject = 'Insert subject here'; // subject of mail
$body = "Hello world! this is the content of the email"; //content of mail
$headers = array(
'From' => $from,
'To' => $to,
'Subject' => $subject
);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array(
'host' => 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com',
'port' => '465',
'auth' => true,
'username' => 'your#gmail.com', //your gmail account
'password' => 'snip' // your password
));
// Send the mail
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);
If you use gmail smtp remember to enable SMTP in you gmail account,
under settings
On a Linux Server you can't use SMTP via the mail function.
I stumbled on the following script today for sending an e-mail using PHPMail.
<?php
$to = "some_address#domain.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "my_address#domain.com";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>
Above can be runnable through php mail.php and instantly you'll get an e-mail sent to $to from $from despite not needing to set outgoing/ingoing servers out.
It really intrigued me, since my CMS uses an SMTP outgoing server (well, same way Mail PHP does), which I need to set up with my Outlook SMTP username and password - some sort of verification.
However, about Mail PHP just.. sends an e-mail. To the address you set it as. From the address you set it as.
Looking at PHP docs it does not really reveal how it works. Does Mail PHP not have any issues with spamming since anyone can send anyone anything anytime programmatically without verification of the from identity?
EDIT:
It's rather funny the people in the comments were talking about the POTUS, since I had the exact thing in mind:
It did land in my junk folder, but I'm sure it isn't hard to make this look convincing enough and still be considered "oh damn spam filter lost my e-mail!"
The mail function uses the settings from php.ini. The details of this configuration can be found in Mail Runtime Configuration.
The defaults can be set in php.ini, although you can override them using ini_set.
I bet you sent the mail from a PHP script on a hosted server. That server probably has SMTP settings configured beforehand. If you would try this locally on a WAMP/LAMP server, you would have to do this configuration yourself, since PHP cannot read your Outlook/WhateverMailclient settings.
As stated in the comments, you can specify the sender/from address yourself. SMTP doesn't require this to be the actual sender domain, so that's why this works. The missing link is the pre-configured SMTP server of your host.
Some relay servers do check for this, and your mail might be blocked or sent to a junk mail folder. You can however configure this in your DNS to indicate that <Your server's IP> is indeed allowed to send email for <yourdomain>. For more information about that subject, you might want to read this question on ServerFault.
It uses the smtp protocol or send_mail, you can even configure what php should use to send mails in php.ini. It can send e-mail but the e-mail will end-up in your spam filter take a look to DKIM and SPF records for more information
When i am trying to send a mail from a contact form in my website using the
PHP mail function its not sending from mydomain.com to the google apps email myname#mydomain.com.
Please suggest a solution for the issue.
After a very long research, I found the answer to this problem.
For me, the problem is in my host settings.
You host treats those domain addresses as they were registered with itself not with Google Apps. So it routes the emails to hosts mail server.
To route it through Google Apps (Gmail), you need to change the email routing settings.
Find "MX Entry" settings in your cpanel and add a new MX Record with priority
0
and destination
gmail.com
and add it. You should also change the existing MX Record priority to 1.
These settings will let your receive emails from php mail() to your Google Apps gmail account.
To send email from PHP you must have an SMTP server installed and have PHP configured to use the server. If you are using shared hosting or have it set up, you should check that you are calling the mail function correctly by checking the documentation.
Here is an example of how it is used:
$to = "name#example.com";
$subject = "Test Message";
$message = "Hello!";
$headers = "From: me#example.org";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
Just modify the /etc/hosts file and add your IP Address mydomain.com mydomain in the next line, this should work by routing emails to google's servers .I did the same for my site.
So my /etc/hosts file looks like this :
127.0.0.1 localhost
IP mysite.com mysite(this is an alias and you can call it anything i suppose)
I have tested my email server on allaboutspam.com to see why the emails are beeing considered spam by hotmail and gmail servers.
The results was amongst other faults, the BATV.
This is the complete result from allaboutspam.com on my BATV:
BATV is a mechanism wherein an outgoing Email server adds a tag to the Envelope From address of all outgoing Emails. For example, if an Email address goes out with From address as <info#allaboutspam.com>, the Envelope From is changed to <prvs=SBDGAUJ=info#allaboutspam.com>, where 'SBDGAUJ' is the added tag. This tag is generated using an internal mechanism and is different for each email sent.
If any bounce is received by the Incoming email servers, they are checked to see if the Bounce address has the proper tag (in above case 'SBDGAUJ'). If not, the email is rejected.
Could somebody explain this in simpler words... How is it configured?
currently I have this setup when sending email with php:
$mail_message="text_text_text_text";
$headers="MIME-Version: 1.0"."\n";
$headers.="Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8"."\n";
$headers.="From: Skuffen <no-reply#domain.se>"."\n";
$subject="SUBJECT HERE";
mail($email, '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($subject).'?=', $mail_message, $headers, '-fno-reply#domain.se');
This is a swedish language so you know (utf-8)...
Thanks
I think that you need to set this up in your Mail Transfer Agent. The PHP mail() command sends mail through the local sendmail (or compatible, like Exim, Postfix or Qmail) installation. That's where BATV needs to be configured.
If you are on a simple shared hosting, contact your hosting provider.
I have currently the following and it's not working. (normally I have a body text and header information, but nothing works)
mail("idealvisions#live.com","Nieuw offerte aanvraag","test");
We'll on my server it did because I'm running php 5 or higher, no problem there. But the contact page is from a client which runs php 4.4 I believe. Now the client is really pushing me to get this fixed but it won't seem to fix. I've tried everything
What's the problem here? is it the php version?
I checked also with phpinfo and have this
sendmail_from no value no value
sendmail_path /usr/local/bin/bgc_webhosting_mailer.sh /usr/local/bin/bgc_webhosting_mailer.sh
This sounds like the Client's server is not set up properly with a mail-sending handler
some ISP's that provide hosting and some free hosting platforms disable the mail function, can you try something like this:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
if (mail ('you#yourdomain.com', 'Test subject', 'Test Body')){
echo 'Mail sent';
}else{
echo 'Mail not sent';
}
if there is an issue with mail() on their server you could consider posting to a mail form on one of your servers and then bouncing them back to a thankyou page on the client's server after.
From the sendmail path, your host uses a custom sendmail program/shell script.
Since the sendmail from isn't set, you have to set it within the mail() function, unless it is hardcoded into /usr/local/bin/bgc_webhosting_mailer.sh in which case you should ask the hosting.
Example setting sender:
mail('recepient#example.com', 'Test subject', 'Test Body', "from:sender#example.com\n");
If the mail() function really is NOT available, then ask your hosting about an alternative, such as their local SMTP server.
You can then use the local SMTP server to send email. Probably the easiest way to do this is donwload an email library that supports sending via SMTP such as PEAR Mail or SwiftMailer for example.
Pear: http://pear.php.net/package/Mail
Swift: http://swiftmailer.org/
If your host does not provide an SMTP server, you should probably look for a different host. However, you can always use a free email service such as Gmail, or Yahoo and send mail through their SMTP.
Also check SeLinux, it can prevent any thread spawned by Apache to send mail. In that case you get no error and no mail.