From property doesn't work

[valx76]

Hi,

I have a problem with the "From" property in PHPMailer.
I'm using GMail (as SMTP and sender) and when I receive a mail sent by PHPMailer, it has the good "FromName" property but not the "From" one (it shows the SMTP address instead).

That's my code :

// SMTP Settings
$phpmailer->From = $settings['from_email'];
$phpmailer->FromName = $settings['from_name'];

Thanks !

[Synchro]

Can you provide some more info? De-personalised headers would be good.

[valx76]

What info do you need @Synchro ?

[Synchro]

Like I said - the received headers you're seeing, the values you're putting into your config. I don't know what you mean by 'SMTP address'.

[valx76]

Oh right. By SMTP adress, I mean SMTP host (GMail here).

Code - SMTP config :

$phpmailer->IsSMTP();
$phpmailer->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
$phpmailer->SMTPAuth = true;
$phpmailer->Username = 'alctest76@gmail.com';
$phpmailer->Password = '__';
$phpmailer->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$phpmailer->Port = 465;

In the header, I have : "From: Val alctest76@gmail.com".
"Val" is the name I pass to the "FromName" property so it works.
But as you can see, the "From" property is not applied, the adress is one use for SMTP authentication..

[sabl0r]

I think gmail doesn't let you set From to an address, which isn't confirmed in your gmail account.

[Synchro]

Can you view source on the message and paste the exact headers? What would be useful is to get the headers generated before sending (look at $phpmailer->PreSend()) too so we can see if gmail is altering them.

What @sabl0r is probably true too.

Incidentally you're using obsolete settings for gmail - you should be using:

$phpmailer->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$phpmailer->Port = 587;

[valx76]

I modified the SMTP for GMail, thanks for that !
The $phpmailer->PreSend() function just returns me true..

And finally, here is the headers :

Delivered-To: valx76@gmail.com
Received: by 10.204.228.197 with SMTP id jf5csp21717bkb;
        Wed, 1 May 2013 10:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.180.182.110 with SMTP id ed14mr30792578wic.6.1367429696334;
        Wed, 01 May 2013 10:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <alctest76@gmail.com>
Received: from mail-wi0-x242.google.com (mail-wi0-x242.google.com [2a00:1450:400c:c05::242])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id mb1si172485wic.91.2013.05.01.10.34.56
        for <valx76@gmail.com>
        (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
        Wed, 01 May 2013 10:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of alctest76@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c05::242 as permitted sender) client-ip=2a00:1450:400c:c05::242;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
       spf=pass (google.com: domain of alctest76@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c05::242 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=alctest76@gmail.com;
       dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com
Received: by mail-wi0-x242.google.com with SMTP id hi8so769860wib.9
        for <valx76@gmail.com>; Wed, 01 May 2013 10:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
        d=gmail.com; s=20120113;
        h=x-received:date:to:from:subject:message-id:x-priority:x-mailer
         :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type;
        bh=sRlGTsD70quVJL3NKaMh1HXmdtMDcDlI5yPTBH/emo8=;
        b=dqOTTcxL1aC51lsJEb8NDVrf3JXnaWdUL2OpXbCM2hsK/Vz3Wiw/zpEaa6ukIbrWF8
         FtYSC37vl/vvOWR3f28Kq791u49uGfb0+l2VZfQIfpTX/W3knNEvyVgRq5N9ZWWAtFz0
         LVX1Dg1IZ0eBP4Cs8hfxX0yXjdBsWrPSUaddTrGkpsZACG4x7Ffy2HLGTPEoZ1VorDjB
         3ZyQHBw1S4Z+09/WzeHZDuVDxsbPtKdUA+HmvoJ9Y3iEwLThBY+pCzxlU//5ErVPzJW4
         w8iKuTAsVtbxAFtY8PV381lRE3cUGb7Ryt3fiIKZ1VE1mRBvp125vuh4Gm2qNc+3Z+Vj
         oYQw==
X-Received: by 10.180.105.231 with SMTP id gp7mr3461230wib.23.1367429696247;
        Wed, 01 May 2013 10:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <alctest76@gmail.com>
Received: from 127.0.0.1   [[JUST REMOVED MY IP HERE]]
        by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id x13sm5338346wib.3.2013.05.01.10.34.53
        for <valx76@gmail.com>
        (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
        Wed, 01 May 2013 10:34:55 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 17:34:51 +0000
Return-Path: <valx76@gmail.com>
To: valx76@gmail.com
From: Wordpress testing <alctest76@gmail.com>
Subject: Newsletter to contributors
Message-ID: <836c2d45732bdec667412612d2a352d5@127.0.0.1>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.6 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

[Synchro]

That's good - we can see that the 'From' header is missing an address. Now for checking what was sent:

$phpmailer->PreSend();
echo $phpmailer->MIMEHeader;

and compare the two (ignoring 'received' headers). If the From header was set correctly before sending, it does indeed look like gmail is stripping it.

[valx76]

I tried to put your code before the email sending but it gives me an error :
Fatal error: Cannot access protected property PHPMailer::$MIMEHeader

[Synchro]

Either subclass it or call GetSentMIMEMessage() instead.

[valx76]

What I have with GetSentMIMEMessage() is :

Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:55:44 +0000
Return-Path: 
To: valx76@gmail.com
From: Wordpress testing 
Subject: Newsletter to contributors
Message-ID: <1714bd4c92518b8e7644c30334bfbae2@127.0.0.1>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.6 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    boundary="b1_1714bd4c92518b8e7644c30334bfbae2"

So, Gmail seems to break the From (email) attribute.

Thanks for the help, I'm closing the issue !