Anyone noticed that stupid “admin@domain.com; on behalf of; noreply@domain.com” bug in subject when you received email with Outlook 2007 and 2010?

Well, the fix is pretty simple. While we were setting the From: <email@domain.com> header, now we need to set the Sender header too. So it looks like:

$header='';
$header.="Sender: $from\r\n";
$header.="From: $from\r\n";
$header.="MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header.="Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
$header.="Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n";
 
mail($to, '=?UTF-8?B?'.base64_encode($subject).'?=', $text, $header);

And that’s it. It took me a while googling for the issue to find it, but hopefully it saves your day!

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