autoresponder to email from form

[rebirth]

Hello,

First I want to thank you for the great script. Everything works smooth.

But I have a question. I wanted to send an automatic mail to the person who fills in something in the form, with some additional information. My autoresponder is set up perfectly. But now I have the following problem: when my mailbox receives the mail, you see the name and emailadress from the person who sents it, but my autoresponder answers to a totally different emailadress. What I think he does is take the realname field, and put the extension of the emailserver behind it. So he answers to something like this: <(Elen)@server1.xenserve.com>

So the (elen) is the realname with () in front and behind it, and then my mailserver. So, now my question is: is there a way to make my autoresponder answer to the correct emailadress (the one from the person who filled the form in)?

I really hope you can help me with this.

[russellr]

Hi rebirth,*

There're a couple of possibilities here:

1. It's a security feature of your autoresponder software - because the email doesn't really come from user, the autoresponder is either getting confused or attempting to send it to the machine that actually sent the email (namely, your server). [/*]
2. The autoresponder is getting confused about the real name inside the*email address.[/*]

If it's #1, I don't think you're going to solve it easily.

However, I think it is more like to be #2.* If you can find where FormMail adds the real name to the email address, and remove it, then it might start working.

Here are the two changes:

Line 1214:

$res_hdr .= "From: ".$SPECIAL_VALUES["email"]." (".$SPECIAL_VALUES["realname"].")".BODY_LF;

becomes

$res_hdr .= "From: ".$SPECIAL_VALUES["email"].BODY_LF;

and line 1246:

$headers = "From: ".$SPECIAL_VALUES["email"]." (".$SPECIAL_VALUES["realname"].")";

becomes

$headers = "From: ".$SPECIAL_VALUES["email"];

Please let me know if that makes a difference.
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[rebirth]

Yes, that was exactly what I needed.

Thank you very much!!! :D