Changing the "from" of my emails

PHP
1

I need to have my emails received as being from Niche.

It seems I can change the from to anything a long as it has an “@” in it as in:


$headers =  "From: this@from_me.com\\r\
";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\\r\
"
        . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\\"$bound_text\\"";

However, like I said, I need to be received as just plain Niche, but this doesn’t work:


$headers =  "From: Niche\\r\
";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\\r\
"
        . "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\\"$bound_text\\"";

Why is that?

2

What you need to do is put the email address and the name in there together. E.g. try this:

$headers = "From: Niche <this@from_me.com>\\r\
";
3

Thanks ralph.m. That worked. Can you recommend an online explanation of the mail() function other than the manual?

4

Hm, PHP is not really my thing. I tend to refer to a few books I have. (I agree that the manual is hopeless.) Perhaps this might be of some use?

5

This is where mail message format and syntax comes from. There are some newer rfc’s but this was the beginning.

6

The PHP manual refers to 1996 standards. Are the '82 standards from post #5 still valid?