PhP's Mail Function Displays my CPanel Login Information

I am sending an e-mail from my php code when certain events occur (i.e., someone posts a reply to a message on my message board). I used this simple code:

mail (me@aol.com, 'Someone Just Posted a Reply.', 'Check the message board, because someone just posted a reply.');

The code executes and I do receive an e-mail. The problem is that when I get the e-mail, the "from" line in the e-mail gives away my cpanel login for my GoDaddy hosting account. I cannot seem to find anything on GoDaddy's site that explains how to disguise this or change this to just reflect the name of my website rather than give away my login to all users every time I send a push notification.

Solution

You have to use the headers in the PHP's mail() function's additional_headers parameters to add more stuff, but this may possibly cause deliverability issues.

This is typically used to add extra headers (From, Cc, and Bcc). Multiple extra headers should be separated with a CRLF (\r\n). If outside data are used to compose this header, the data should be sanitized so that no unwanted headers could be injected.

With above being said, your updated code should look something like:

<?php
  $headers = array(
    'From' => 'webmaster@example.com',           // Add your from address.
    'Reply-To' => 'webmaster@example.com',       // Add your reply to address.
    'X-Mailer' => 'PHP/' . phpversion()          // Optional stuff.
  );
  mail(
    "me@aol.com",
    "Someone Just Posted a Reply.",
    "Check the message board, because someone just posted a reply.",
    $headers // This way
  );

Note: Make sure the above code is written in a single line. 😇