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That's strange.  If anything, instead of looking like this:

<From@subdomain.dreamhost.com: Oekaki> myuser@mydomain.

...they should look like this:

From@subdomain.dreamhost.com: Oekaki <myuser@mydomain>

I have a feeling that Dreamhost may be adding the web address to the e-mail header because the board is hosted on a sub-domain.  It shouldn't do that, but I guess it is.

As a feature request, the "From" field has been changed to show the name of the oekaki board, instead of "Oekaki".  I also changed the header format and the encoding.  This should also fix the problem you're experiencing.

I expect 1.5.14 will be released next week, as I've been using the new version on my oekaki for a while.

Anyway, the UTF-8 encoder is a bit strange, since PHP doesn't encode e-mails correctly and I have to do it manually.  You start by using the w_mail() function, which then gets sent to utf8_mail(), which formats the mail and adds the headers.  All UTF-8 encoding is handled by the utf8_mail_encode() function.  Headers are encoded inline, while the message body has to be reformatted and properly wrapped to meet RFC 2822.  It's the line wrap encoding that makes things complicated.

I think the process is adding the from twice. When I check the headers it's using for the email, I find:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
From: From: Oekaki <me@mydomain.com>
X-Mailer: Wacintaki

Last edited by happythursday (06-09-2013 10:16:25)

The "From:" is the problem, and has been removed from the new version.

The proper format for the "from" header in an e-mail is name <address@domain.com>, but of course you can just use the plain address without using a name.