[Techtalk] PHP question

[Chantal Rosmuller]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 20:29, Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:01:14PM +0100, Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
> > 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'm not using PHP much myself, but more than once I've seen other
> people having all kinds of similar problems when the -t option was
> missing from the sendmail commandline in their PHP setup.  Roughly
> speaking, -t turns on "envelope processing" (with most MTAs), and
> should thus at least take care of the Bcc: issue. With a bit of luck,
> it might also solve the From: problem...
>
> So, one thing to check would be what sendmail commandline is configured
> in your php.ini file. (This command is being invoked behind the scenes
> when you call the PHP mail() function.)  IIRC, it's "sendmail_path=...".
> Alternatively, you can specify a fifth argument to mail(), containing
> the options that you want to have passed through to the commandline.
>
> Another thing which _might_ help with the From: problem is to set up
> apache as a trusted MTA user, so an address different from real
> submitting user is allowed -- not entirely sure though (I'm no mail
> guru...)  The docs of the MTA you're using should tell you how to
> configure the latter.
>
> Good luck,
> Almut

Hi Almut,

Thank's for your reply, does it apply to postfix as well? That's what I'm 
using.

Chantal
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