From header in php mail() being overwritten

[jorfermo]

I'm trying to send email from a domain using code like this:

$email = "[email protected]";
$from = "From: $email\r\n";
mail($receiver, $subject, $message, $from);

But i see in the mail logs that from address is being overwritten using the default user for the domain. Is there anyway to configure plesk or postfix to respect those headers?

Thx!

 

[abdi]

But is that a valid "From" header it self?

 

[jorfermo]

Do you mean $from = "From: $email\r\n"; ?

Why isn't it?

This is an example from php documentation

<?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);
?>

 

[abdi]

Please add the name too...

 

[jorfermo]

What name?

 

[jorfermo]

I found that adding "-f $receiver" as last parameter of mail() function makes it work.

But why the headers are not working?