Problem with 'Reply-To' on PHP contact form

PHP
1

Hi guys,

I’ve created a PHP contact form which works perfectly; except, when I receive the email to my inbox and go to reply to it, it doesn’t reply to the email address of the person who submitted the form - in the reply field it appears to have the default server email address.

Here’s my code which I have included in the same PHP page as my form:



<?php

if (array_key_exists('submit', $_POST)) {
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $email = $_POST['email'];
    $formMessage = $_POST['message'];

if (empty($name)) {
$warning['name'] = "Please provide your name";
}

if (empty($email)) {
$warning['email'] = "Please provide your email address";
}

if (empty($formMessage)) {
$warning['message'] = "Please type your message";
}

$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"] . "\\r\
";
$to = "me@myemail.com";
$subject = "Enquiry from website";

$message = $headers;
$message .= "Name: " . $_POST["name"] . "\\r\
";
$message .= "E-mail: " . $_POST["email"] . "\\r\
";

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\\r\
";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\\r\
";

$message= "

<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='8' border='0' width='500'>
<tr>
<td colspan='2'></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor='#eeeeee'>
<td width='154' style='font-family:Verdana, Arial; font-size:11px; color:#333333;'><strong>Name</strong></td>
<td width='314' style='font-family:Verdana, Arial; font-size:11px; color:#333333;'>".$name."</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor='#eeeeee'>
<td style='font-family:Verdana, Arial; font-size:11px; color:#333333;'><strong>E-mail address:</strong></td>
<td style='font-family:Verdana, Arial; font-size:11px; color:#333333;'>".$email."</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor='#eeeeee'>
<td colspan='2' style='font-family:Verdana, Arial; font-size:11px; color:#333333;'><strong>Message</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor='#eeeeee'>
<td colspan='2' style='font-family:Verdana, Arial; font-size:11px; color:#333333;'>".$formMessage."</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan='2' style='padding: 0px;'></td></tr>
</table>

";


$url = stripslashes($_POST["url"]);
if (!empty($url)) {
header( 'Location: http://www.go-away-spam-robots.com' );
exit();
}

if (!isset($warning)) {
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
header( 'Location: http://www.mydomain.com/thankyou.php' ) ;
}

}

?>

Can anyone see from my code why this would be happening?

Thank you very much!

SM

2

Try add "From: " in $headers .
Example:

$headers .= "From: " . $_POST["name"] . "<" . $_POST["email"] . ">\\r\
";

Or:

$headers .= "From: " . $_POST["email"] . "\\r\
";
3

Hey there,
Thank you for the reply - unfortunately I tried both and neither seemed to work; the email still comes from the default server user and replies to that.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks again :slight_smile:

4

Hi,
Maybe the cause is from the mail server that is configured to add that address to Reply if the connection is not with SMTP autentification.
Try ask the server administrator.

5

Thank you - I’ll give them a shout! :slight_smile:

6

You don’t need the “Reply-to:” header if you have the right “From:” header.

Are you using mail() or imap_mail() to send the emails? I had a similar problem with imap_mail() on my server, it would not recognize my “Return-path:” header. I solved the problem by switching to mail().

7

You have concatenated your ‘Reply-To’ line without having anything to add it to first:

$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"] . "\\r\
";

It looks as though that gets dropped when you declare $headers as the MIME-Version further down the block:

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\\r\
";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\\r\
";

I would concatenate the first line after the next two like so:

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\\r\
";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\\r\
";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["email"] . "\\r\
";

I use mail() myself and I’ve had no problems with it.

8

CASE CLOSED!! :slight_smile:

Thank you very much Enver, that’s absolutely brilliant - that’s solved the mystery!

Also a big thank you to CaptainCSS and MarPlo for your invaluable contributions.

Top shooters, all of you! :slight_smile: