Change email headers in Contact us

[Millie]

Hello,

My oscommerce emails have been working for a couple years but my host changed email security and now all the submissions on the contactus page are bouncing. My host says, "The server cannot send mail from domain names that it does not host. This is done to prevent SPAM from leaving the network." To fix they suggest'

 

"Instead of using the From: header to store the email address of the

person attempting to contact you, use the Reply-To: header, and set

the From: address to a domain that is hosted on the server."

 

I have been unable to figure out how to change the email headers as suggested and would appreciate suggestions for resolving this problem. I'm using sendmail.

Thank you,

Millie

[germ]

Hello,

My oscommerce emails have been working for a couple years but my host changed email security and now all the submissions on the contactus page are bouncing. My host says, "The server cannot send mail from domain names that it does not host. This is done to prevent SPAM from leaving the network." To fix they suggest'

 

"Instead of using the From: header to store the email address of the

person attempting to contact you, use the Reply-To: header, and set

the From: address to a domain that is hosted on the server."

 

I have been unable to figure out how to change the email headers as suggested and would appreciate suggestions for resolving this problem. I'm using sendmail.

Thank you,

Millie

At the top of /catalog/contact_us.php change this code:

 

      tep_mail(STORE_OWNER, STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS, EMAIL_SUBJECT, $enquiry, $name, $email_address);

to

 

//      tep_mail(STORE_OWNER, STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS, EMAIL_SUBJECT, $enquiry, $name, $email_address);

     $headers = 'From: ' . STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $email_address . "\r\n";

     mail(STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS , EMAIL_SUBJECT , $enquiry , $headers, '');

BACKUP THE FILE BEFORE MAKING ANY EDITS.

[Millie]

Thank you germ! I need to test it some more but it seems to do just what I need. I sure appreciate the help. Millie

[multimixer]

I had the idea to use the osC tep_mail function to do this, instead of replacing it with the "standard" php mail function. I posted this here -->email issues

 

The point is that you need to include $headers to the tep_mail function in includes/functions/general.php like this

function tep_mail($to_name, $to_email_address, $email_subject, $email_text, $from_email_name, $from_email_address, $headers) {

and

$message->send($to_name, $to_email_address, $from_email_name, $from_email_address, $email_subject, $headers); 

 

Then you can use what Jim said, replacing the

mail(STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS , EMAIL_SUBJECT , $enquiry , $headers, '');

with

tep_mail(STORE_OWNER_EMAIL_ADDRESS , EMAIL_SUBJECT , $enquiry , $headers, '');