--- Eric Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all
> Any mail from my web site form any visitor might send is sent from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> How can I change this?
> 
> <?php
> $to      = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
> $subject = 'the subject';
> $message = 'hello';
> $headers = 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . "\r\n" .
>     'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . "\r\n" .
>     'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
> 
> mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
> ?>
> 
> never worked, or should I say everything work OK except for the  $headers
> part
> 
> I wonder what MUA stands for as in "The addition of basic headers, telling
> the MUA the From and Reply-To addresses:"
> 
> From Eric

The MUA is the Mail User Agent -- essentially the mail reader or client program
such as Outlook, Eudora, etc.  The MTA is the Mail Transport Agent -- the
server such as SendMail, QMail, PostFix, Exim, or Exchange.

Are you, by chance, using a Windows server to run your PHP?  Linux/Unix servers
with the MTAs available for those platforms seem to do a pretty good job with
using the From: values supplied in PHP.  The Windows ones often do not.  It is
one of the differences between running PHP on Windows or a Linux/Unix OS which
can cause frustrations for developers.

James Keeline

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