How to Change Envelope from Address Using PHP Mail

How to change envelope from address using PHP mail?

mail() has a 4th and 5th parameter (optional). The 5th argument is what should be passed as options directly to sendmail. I use the following:

mail('to@blah.com','subject!','body!','From: from@blah.com','-f from@blah.com');

How to change envelope sender address using phpmailer?

This example shows how.

the relevant lines:

$mail->SetFrom('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddReplyTo('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');

As Hannes Morgenstern correctly suggested, the answer is:

$pMail->Sender='admin@yourdomain.com';
$pMail->SetFrom('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last', FALSE);

How can I force the From: header (envelope sender) in PHP without putting it in mail()?

sendmail_from is ignored

From http://www.php.net/manual/en/mail.configuration.php:

sendmail_from string

Which "From:" mail address should be used in mail sent from PHP under Windows.
This directive also sets the "Return-Path:" header.

So because you're using a CentOS LAMP stack, not Windows, this setting is ignored.

Also:

sendmail_path string

If set, smtp, smtp_port and sendmail_from are ignored and the specified command is executed.

So sendmail_from is also ignored because you're using sendmail_path.

Solution

You can also pass the -F (capital F) with an empty value to remove the "sender full name" from the header:

Pass -f noreply@domain.com -F "" to the $additional_parameters argument of the mail() function.

Other notes

-f parameter

When you see your sender address changed, Postfix is doing that. This is because (in your case) the system-user under which Apache runs is calling the sendmail binary. And this binary will use <system-user>@<hostname> as sender address (unless told otherwise by the -f or -r parameter).

To prevent this, sendmail should be called with -f <sender address>. Either by passing it to the $additional_parameters argument of the mail() function, or by adding it to the sendmail_path ini-setting.

But it looks like you've already figured this out :)

A better solution

I suggest you don't use the ini-settings at all. In stead, write a small class around the mail() function:

class Mailer
{
    /**
     * @var string
     */
    private $fromEmail;

    /**
     * @var string
     */
    private $fromName;

    /**
     * @param string $fromEmail
     * @param string $fromName
     */
    public function __construct($fromEmail, $fromName)
    {
        $this->fromEmail = $fromEmail;
        $this->fromName  = $fromName;
    }

    /**
     * @param  string $to
     * @param  string $subject
     * @param  string $body
     * @param  array  $headers
     * @return bool
     */
    public function send($to, $subject, $body, array $headers = array())
    {
        $headers[]  = sprintf('From: "%s" <%s>', $this->fromName, $this->fromEmail);
        $parameters = sprintf('-f %s', $this->fromEmail);

        return mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers, $parameters);
    }
}

And use it like so:

$mailer = new Mailer('noreply@domain.com', 'My Company');
$mailer->send('email@address.tld', 'Subject', 'Body');

This class is over-simplified, but it should give you a basic idea of how negate the hassle of From: headers and -f parameters every time you want to send an e-mail.

And if you're using a Dependency Injection Container, or a Registry, you can configure/instantiate this class in the bootstrap phase of your application and simply grab it from the container/registry whenever you want to send an e-mail:

$container->get('mailer')->send($to, $subject, $message);

Or using a registry:

Registry::get('mailer')->send($to, $subject, $message);

3rd party library

In to long run it can be worth while to look into 3rd party libraries to send e-mails. I personally prefer Swift Mailer.

PHP mail() how to set sender mail

Try setting the envelope sender, as well setting the sender in the headers of the message, like so:

$to = "to@to.com";
$from = "from@from.com";
$subject = "subject";
$message = "this is the message body";

$headers = "From: $from"; 
$ok = @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, "-f " . $from);   

Change the sender name php mail instead of sitename@hostname.com

You only use $from in your Reply-To header. If you want it to be in the From header, you need to set it in the From header.

Put something like this before your mail() command:

$headers .= 'From: ' . $from . "\r\n";

Set Sender-header with mail()

I solved it by changing the host name on the server. I found How to change envelope from address using PHP mail? and took the answer that everybody disliked. It worked. Finally, took weeks and weeks to find this... So easy.

For anyone who has the same and happens to be running on CentOs 7:
http://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux/centos-how-tos/change-hostname-in-centos-7-rhel-7.html

change sender email address in php form to recipient

You can use the 5th parameter of the mail function:

mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $header, '-fno-replay@mydomain.com');

From the manual:

The additional_parameters parameter can be used to pass additional
flags as command line options to the program configured to be used
when sending mail, as defined by the sendmail_path configuration
setting. For example, this can be used to set the envelope sender
address when using sendmail with the -f sendmail option.

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