PHPMailer from is showing as Root User

Question

I am using PHP Mailer to send emails and i am using SMTP

here is the code i am using:

$email = new PHPMailer();

            $email->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
            $email->Host       = "mail.integradigital.co.uk"; // SMTP server
            $email->SMTPDebug  = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
                                                       // 1 = errors and messages
                                                       // 2 = messages only
            $email->SMTPAuth   = true;  // enable SMTP authentication
            $email->Host       = "mail.integradigital.co.uk"; // sets the SMTP server
            $email->Port       = 26;    // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
            $email->Username   = "sending@************.co.uk"; // SMTP account username
            $email->Password   = "********";        // SMTP account password

            $email->SetFrom($result["emailfrom"]);
            $email->FromName($result["emailfrom"]);

            $email->Subject   = $result["subject"];
            $email->Body      = $result["message"];

but its sending and showing as from Root User - root@localhost

i know i can change this in the class.phpmailer.php file but i want to be able to set it in the code above

is this possible?

Answer 1

Okay, in short:

$email->From = "[email protected]";
$email->FromName = "Support Team";

This worked out for me.

Answer 2

Wrap the whole thing in a try catch. And initialize phpmailer with exceptions enabled

$email = new PHPMailer(true);

It looks like the default values are used. So something goes wrong when calling setFrom(). And it's failing silently because it returns false without exceptions enabled.

try {
  // your mail code here
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
  echo $e->getMessage();
}

And change the setting of email and from name to:

$email->setFrom($result["emailfrom"], $result["emailfrom"]);

FromName is a property not a method.

Answer 3

class.phpmailer.php file contains the "var $FromName = 'Root User';" section which can be changed to "Desired Name" from "Root User" and have your job done.