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How to change the me when receiving email on contact us

I've created an contact us form using PHP Mailer, however the problem is when I received the email the name before you open it is me and I can't figured out how to fix it. Also I appreciate it if someone explain to me what is the different between Username and the add Address. Thank you in advance.
Here is the me I'm referring to
<?php
use PHPMailer;
if(isset($_POST['name']) && isset($_POST['email'])){
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$body = $_POST['body'];
require_once "PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php";
require_once "PHPMailer/SMTP.php";
require_once "PHPMailer/Exception.php";
$mail = new PHPMailer();
//smtp settings
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = "";
$mail->Password = '';
$mail->Port = 465;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->SetFrom("$email ", "$name");
//email settings
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->setFrom($_POST['email'], $_POST['email']);
$mail->addAddress("");
$mail->Subject = ("$email ($subject)");
$mail->Body = $body;
if($mail->send()){
$status = "success";
$response = "Email is sent!";
}
else
{
$status = "failed";
$response = "Something is wrong: <br>" . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}
exit(json_encode(array("status" => $status, "response" => $response)));
}

You are sending mail from the same email address to the same email address.
So, many email clients identify yourself as me.
You will have to send using another email address, and you will be idenfied with your email/name.
As Jesse said: You can also send mail to another email, and it will usually not show me.

Make a new Email address / use another Email address in script

I cant get my php mailer to send a mail using post data

i am having some trouble with phpmailer and ajax. Im quite new to ajax and dont fully understand it yet so this might have a quite obvious fix but here we go.
So when i just put my php mailer script in a page and visit it with set values i can send the mail. but whenever i try to send my form data to the script something doesnt work.
This is my jquery
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".contact-form").on("submit",function(e){
e.preventDefault();
function validateEmail($email) {
var emailReg = /^([\w-\.]+#([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4})?$/;
return emailReg.test( $email );
}
var valid = true;
if(!$("#name").val()) {
$("#userEmail").css('border','2px solid #FFFFDF');
valid = false;
}
if( !validateEmail($(' #email').val())) {
valid = false
}
if(!$("#subject").val()) {
$("#subject").css('border','2px solid #FFFFDF');
valid = false;
}
if(!$("#message").val()) {
$("#message").css('border','2px solid #FFFFDF');
valid = false;
}
//send data to php file
var isValid;
isValid = valid
if(isValid) {
var name = $("#name").val();
var email = $("#email").val();
var subject = $("#subject").val();
var message = $("#message").val();
jQuery.ajax({
url: "includes/sendmail.inc.php",
type : "POST",
data:{name:name,email:email,subject:subject,message:message},
success:function(data){
$(".err_msg").text("Send!");
$(".err_msg").css('background-color', 'green')
$(".err_msg").show()
},
error:function (){}
});
} else {
$(".err_msg").text("Oops! check your input.");
$(".err_msg").css('background-color', 'red')
$(".err_msg").show()
}
});
});
This is my php
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
// Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace
// These must be at the top of your script, not inside a function
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\SMTP;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
// Load Composer's autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$name = $_POST['name'];
$mail = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
// Instantiation and passing `true` enables exceptions
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
//Server settings
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
$mail->SMTPDebug = SMTP::DEBUG_SERVER; // Enable verbose debug output
$mail->isSMTP(); // Send using SMTP
$mail->Host = 'mail.example#example.com'; // Set the SMTP server to send through
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'example#example.com'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'example123'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS; // Enable TLS encryption; `PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS` encouraged
$mail->Port = 587 ; // TCP port to connect to, use 465 for `PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS` above
//Recipients
$mail->setFrom( $email , $name);
$mail->addAddress('example#example.com', 'John Doe'); // Add a recipient
$mail->addReplyTo($email , $name);
// Content
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = $subject;
$mail->Body = $message;
$mail->send();
echo 'Message has been sent';
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}
so this is what i have so far i hope you guys can figure out what i did wrong because i have been stuck on this for about two days now.
greetz Floris

yes i figured it out guys thanks ! so what went wrong is that for some reason it wouldnt send because the FROM email adress was a gmail account and i am using my own domain smtp that was causing it appearantly

PHPMailer SMTP troubles - Getting letters but with errors on the website

I have the following issue: I have a contact form on my Bootstrap 4 .html website. The form is a simple form based on PHPMailer with Bootstrap validator. Previously I received the emails from my contact form without SMTP and everything was fine. Now I decided to use Gmail SMTP and changed my code. I'm receiving the messages to my gmail inbox but I see the errors on the website as soon as the letter is sent.
Could, you, please, let me know where my problem is? I broke my head trying to solve the problem.
ajax.js file:
$(document).ready(function() {
function submitForm(){
var name =$("input[name=name]").val();
var email =$("input[name=email]").val();
var comment =$("textarea[name=comment]").val();
var captcha=grecaptcha.getResponse();
var form = $('form')[0];
var formData = new FormData(form);
formData.append('name', name );
formData.append('email', email );
formData.append('comment', comment );
formData.append('captcha', captcha );
$.ajax({
url: "include/ajax/send.php",
type: "POST",
contentType: false,
processData: false,
data: formData,
cache: false,
success : function(text){
if (text == "success"){
formSuccess();
} else {
formError();
submitMSG(false,text);
}
}
});
}
php file:
// send email
$mail = new PHPMailer;
// Email Template
$mail->SMTPOptions = array(
'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
)
);
//Tell PHPMailer to use SMTP
$mail->isSMTP();
//Enable SMTP debugging
// 0 = off (for production use)
// 1 = client messages
// 2 = client and server messages
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
//Ask for HTML-friendly debug output
$mail->Debugoutput = 'html';
//Set the hostname of the mail server
$mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
// use
// $mail->Host = gethostbyname('smtp.gmail.com');
// if your network does not support SMTP over IPv6
//Set the SMTP port number - 587 for authenticated TLS, a.k.a. RFC4409 SMTP submission
$mail->Port = 465;
//Set the encryption system to use - ssl (deprecated) or tls
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
//Whether to use SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
//Username to use for SMTP authentication - use full email address for gmail
$mail->Username = "xxx#gmail.com";
//Password to use for SMTP authentication
$mail->Password = "xxx";
/* Replace the email address and the Email Subject */
$EmailTo = "xxx#gmail.com"; // The Send To Email
$Subject= "New Message"; // Email Subject
// reCAPTCHA SEcret Key
$reCaptchaSecretKey = "xxx";
//retrive form variables from ajax
$name =#$_REQUEST["name"];
$email =#$_POST["email"];
$comment =#$_POST["comment"];
$captcha=#$_REQUEST["captcha"];
$formGoogleCaptcha = $captcha;
//check Catptcha
$response=file_get_contents("https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret=".$reCaptchaSecretKey."&response=".$formGoogleCaptcha."&remoteip=".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
$obj = json_decode($response);
if ($obj->success == 1 || $obj->success == true) {
$email_body="";
$email_body = $email_body . "<strong>First Name: </strong>" . $name . "\r\n\r\n";
$email_body = $email_body . "<strong>Email: </strong>" . $email . "\r\n\r\n";
$email_body = $email_body . "<strong>Message: </strong>" . $comment . "\r\n\r\n";
$email_body = nl2br($email_body);
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
I also attached an error example
Thank you in advance, mates.

What you're seeing is debug output, which is appearing because you have debug output enabled. Change this:
$mail->SMTPDebug = 1;
to
$mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
Note that you turn it off early in your script, but then turn it on again later.
A separate problem is that you're using a very old version of PHPMailer. Get the latest.

Phpmailer and javascript configuration

I'm new to the world of programming. My code is shown below.
First question: how do I format the body text? For example, not having all requests in a row but one below the other, etc.
Second question: How can I insert the code to be able to load a file in my contact form, the html code is already present and it works but on the javascript side I can't understand where to insert it.
Last question: I have a news letters acceptance field how do I insert a field that tells me if the user has accepted the news letter?
Thanks a lot to everyone!
<?php
$name = $_POST["name"];
$email = $_POST["email"];
$telefono = $_POST["telefono"];
$indirizzo = $_POST["indirizzo"];
$civico = $_POST["civico"];
$citta = $_POST["citta"];
$provincia = $_POST["provincia"];
$cap = $_POST["cap"];
$newsletters = $_POST["newsletters"];
$body = "Name:" .$name . "<br>Email:" . $email .
"TelefonoLocale:" . $telefono . "Indirizzo:" . $indirizzo . "Civico:" . $civico . "Città:" . $citta. "Provincia:" . $provincia . "Cap:" . $cap . "newsletters:" . $newsletters;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require 'PHPMailer/src/Exception.php';
require 'PHPMailer/src/PHPMailer.php';
require 'PHPMailer/src/SMTP.php';
// Instantiation and passing `true` enables exceptions
$mail = new PHPMailer(true);
try {
//Server settings
$mail->isSMTP(); // Send using SMTP
$mail->Host = 'xxxxxxx'; // Set the SMTP server to send through
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // Enable SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = 'xxxxxxxx'; // SMTP username
$mail->Password = 'xxxxxxxxxx'; // SMTP password
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl'; // Enable TLS encryption; `PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_SMTPS` also accepted
$mail->Port = xxxxxx; // TCP port to connect to
//Recipients
$mail->setFrom('xxxxxx', $name);
$mail->addAddress('xxxxxxxx'); // Add a recipient
// Content
$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML
$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
$mail->Body = $body;
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';
$mail->send();
echo '<script>
alert("Messaggio inviato correttamente");
window.history.go(-1);
</script>';
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo "Message could not be sent. Mailer Error: {$mail->ErrorInfo}";
}

Remove recipient details BCC from PHP Mailer

When I am trying to send multiple emails using php mailer, it displays all recipients addresses. All the mail recipients can find others email addresses whom I sent. Is it possible to remove others recipient addresses? Need to show the recipient only its recipient address not others.
Here is my Coding
$to_array = explode(",", $_REQUEST['Recipient']);
$mail->From = 'automail#domain.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Test Admin';
foreach ($to_array as $address) {
$mail->AddAddress($address);
}
$mail->Subject = "$subject";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->Send();

If you dont want other users to see your recipients you can simply do a bcc
$to_array = explode(",", $_REQUEST['Recipient']);
$mail->From = 'automail#domain.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Test Admin';
foreach ($to_array as $address) {
$mail->AddBCC($address);
}
$mail->Subject = "$subject";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->Send();
If you just want recipients email to display and not others you need to send them individually this way
$to_array = explode(",", $_REQUEST['Recipient']);
for($i=0; $i<count($to_array); $i++){
$mail->From = 'automail#domain.com';
$mail->FromName = 'Test Admin';
$mail->AddAddress($to_array[$i]);
$mail->Subject = "$subject";
$mail->MsgHTML($body);
$mail->Send();
}
First case wont display any TO email. Second case it will display only the recipient email.