[Techtalk] PHP question

[Chantal Rosmuller]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 18:02, Raquel wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:01:14 +0100
>
> Chantal Rosmuller <chantal at antenna.nl> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I hope I can also ask a PHP question here, I also sent it to the
> > PHP general  mailing list but up to now I haven't gotten the
> > answer I was looking for.
> >
> > I'm working on a mailform and it's kind of working but I still
> > have 2  problems:
> >
> > 1) I can't get the From header right, when I receive the test mail
> > the sender  is apache
> > 2) The BCC headers (there's more then one) are not stripped.
>
> I always used the PHPMailer class.  It just made accessing mail
> easier.  However, one of the problems you're having still remained,
> even using the PHPMailer class.  Mail sent using a script on your
> web server is "automatically" sent using the web server user.  In
> your case, I think that user is "apache".  To me, this indicates you
> need to make some changes to your MTA, which is doing the
> "automatic" replacement.
>
> Do you run your own mail server?  What MTA are you using?

Hi Raquel, 

thanks for your reply, I did try the PHPMailer class and the From header 
problem remained just like you said. I'm using postfix but the script has to 
run eventually on a shared webserver so changing the MTA settings is not an 
option.

Regards Chantal