Setting "&from" doesn't work

I mentioned in another thread that I had to add the following lines to eform.inc.php to get a contact form to work:



One of the admins at most hosting provider said that this was because

You’re missing out a variable which states who the email is from (it’s an RFC 2822 requirement)

I want to set it up so that the person who receives the e-mail via the contact form can simply press reply to send a message to the sender. So I tried adding &from=`[+email+]` to the eform call. However it does not work, emails are always shown as coming from "[email protected]".

How can I correct this?

Thanks and regards,
Matt

Try it with just the fieldname:

Hi Susan,

No luck with "&from=`email`" the message was flagged as coming from [email protected].

Also, if I remove the line:



From the eform.inc.php file, then messages come from "Unknown Sender".

Thanks,
Matt

Ok, I’ve done some work with it, and &from=`[+email+]` &fromname=`[+name+]` work for me; these are the name attributes of the form fields used. If you go to my site and contact me, you’ll see the debug info it’s producing. http://www.sottwell.com/contact.html

Still no luck for me. If I set
I get "[email protected]" as both the email and fromname in the message that arrives. If I remove I get "Unknown Sender".

Does this mean it is a config issue with the server?

Thanks,
Matt

Are you sure that those are the name attributes of the form fields in question?

Ah ha! Setting &replyto=`email` has done the trick! I noticed it in your example...

The message still comes from [email protected], but when you hit reply it uses the message senders address.

That is all I needed it to do.

Incidentally, both of those input fields are set as you mentioned:

<input name="email" .../>
<input name="name" ... />

Thanks for your help.
Matt

My fault entirely. I completely missed the part about this being about replying to the email! I thought that the email from the form wasn’t getting sent.