SMTP User is used in 'From' instead of filled in email address in form

I’ve a formit form on my website. I want the following to happen:

- Form is sent using SMTP from Google apps e-mailadress as configured in MODx System Settings. ([email protected] in the codes below)
- From this Google apps e-mailaccount an autoreply is sent to the person who filled in the form, to the e-mailadress that person has filled in.([email protected] in the codes below).

Everything works, except the auto reply from the google apps account is sent to the google apps address (the ’SMTP user’) instead of the e-mailadress of the site visitor.

This is my formit call:



MODx System Settings:


In the e-mail that is sent to the google apps account the following headers are included:




The reason the auto reply is sent to the google apps account, is probably because of this line: From: Visitor Name <[email protected]>
The name that is filled in the form is placed here correctly, but the wrong e-mailadress is used (not the ’Emailfrom’ that is set in the formit snippet call, but the SMTP user from the MODx System Settings).
Also ’Return-path’ turns up twice in the header, first with [email protected], and second with the e-mailadress of the visitor.

I hope someone can point me in the right direction as to why the e-mailadress of the visitor is not used in the From e-mailadress. Could it be something that Google does when sending with Google’s SMTP? Thanks for any help.

I’m using:
- Revolution 2.0.6-pl2
- Formit 1.5.2-pl

Change your ’SMTP Hosts’ in the system settings to ’smtp.googlemail.com’ (without the port). This should work.

(p.s. glad to see the FormItValidator in use )

That is something Google does. I’ve never tried it with googlemail in the host name, so that may help. If not, you can include the user’s email in the message with a placeholder.

[update] I just tried it with smtp.googlemail.com and it made no difference. Google still changes the sender to the gmail account holder.

I noticed this behaviour too, even the validation was giving a validation-error on my field name: ’email’.

I changed my codes with yours and after it I had it working. Perhaps ’FormItAutoResponder’ and/or ’store’ is killing the process? (because I ain’t using that part)

It’s my understanding that Gmail always puts the name of the Gmail account holder in the from header when you send SMTP through Gmail.

Are you saying you’ve found a way around this? If so, I’d love to hear the details.

Quote from: BobRay at Apr 20, 2011, 06:46 PM

It’s my understanding that Gmail always puts the name of the Gmail account holder in the from header when you send SMTP through Gmail.
Are you saying you’ve found a way around this? If so, I’d love to hear the details.

Hmmm, never tried it myself - but maybe this can help:
https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/render?eid=dDFpNWU3MHZpbXV1dTdxbmptNWtscHJycTggZ29vZ2xlYXBwcy5jb21fMnNocGE2b2E1NGRnNm9sMzIwaXJjaGMwcGtAZw&ctz=America/Los_Angeles&gsessionid=OK&sf=true&output=xml

Interesting, but it has a down side:

If your mail provider doesn’t support secured connections to their mail servers, we do offer port 25 in an unsecured connection. With an unsecured connection, your information won’t be encoded, which means it’s possible for someone to see your login credentials and message data when you connect.