I need help with the Mail function, and how to get it to show sender in my email inbox.


Where I mean, when one sees ones inbox, or junk box etc, under the column titled 'from'.

I want that to show my name, not my email address. Just like one gets a message from Ebay, it just says 'Ebay' or 'paypal' etc, it will show the email address by default.

How do I get the Mail function to work like that for me.

You can use header function for that.

$from = "someonelse@example.com";
$headers = "From: $from";

Replace the value in the header.

Here is the Script I used

$mto='myname@hotmail.com';
$c="From: my name@mywebsite.com\r\nSender:My name is this";

mail($mto,$mh,$mb,$c);

my problem is
When I test this by sending it to my hotmail account, under the From column, I want it to show 'My name'

My website is being hosted by another company, could there be some issue in the setup of which prevents my hosting server in sending certain things.

This is what happens

When I had - From: autovote@internetdatabase.com.au Sender: IDB Lobby vote

Under the from column I get - autovote@internetdatabase.com.au

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When I had - Sender: IDB Lobby vote\r\nFrom: autovote@internetdatabase.com.au\r\n

Under the form column I get - autovote@internetdatabase.com.au