[Solved] HowTo Change PHP mail sender name

[adigit]

when tried to send out TEST email with PHP mail and found the sender name is "virtual-user <webmaster@abc.com> "

and it's marked as "spam" by gmail! where can i change it, pls?

[joximu]

have a look in the php.ini for the domain (abc.com in your example...)

/var/www/fcgid/<domain>/phpX/php.ini

[adigit]

i should state clearly that i want to change "virtual-user" to something like "webservice" or "info"

[raphael]

that can be done passing the $headers arg to mail() and adding the 'From: somebody <mail@mydomain.tld>' header.

[adigit]

i change the sendmail_path with -F 'From: somebody <mail@mydomain.tld>', it works for gmail. but for some other emails, it shows the email sender as vu200x@mydomain.tld.local instead.

[joximu]

Ok, there are two sort of sender in an e-mail:
the envelope sender - which is set in the php.ini and
the "from" sender which you can set while sending an email - as raphael stated above: adding some more headers to the "mail()" function in the php-script.

Normally the "from" sender is the one which is important - sometimes the envelope sender two - but mostly it's ok if the envelope sender is a valid mail address...

Cheers
J.

[adigit]

thanks joximu, very clear explanation!