apache is definitely listed in the trusted users, as I mentioned, I can send from dozens of other domains, its just one specific domain that I can't. i'll let you know the results of sending the email from outside of php. On 7/12/07, Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard Lynch wrote: > On Thu, July 12, 2007 6:33 pm, Tanner Postert wrote: >> I am currently running >> >> PHP 5.1.4 >> Fedora Core 5 >> >> i'm trying to exectute the following test script. >> >> <?php >> $to = 'my.email@xxxxxxxxxxx'; >> $subject = 'the subject'; >> $message = 'body'; >> $headers = 'From: webmaster@xxxxxxxxxx' . "\r\n" . >> 'Reply-To: webmaster@xxxxxxxxxx' . "\r\n" . >> 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion(); >> >> mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); >> ?> > > You really ought to be getting the return value from mail() and > checking it for success... > > Error-checking is good. :-) > >> i have about 10 or so different virtual hosts running on this machine, >> and >> if i use any of them for the from & reply-to addresses, it works fine, >> or >> even if i use domains I don't control like aol.com or example.com >> those work >> too, but one particular new virtual host doesn't work, it re-writes >> the from >> address to the default virtual host address. which is strange because >> that >> isn't in the php.ini anywhere, but it could just be taking the >> hostname. >> >> anyone have any ideas? > > As I understand it: > > If the PHP (read: Apache) User is not "trusted" in sendmail config, > then sendmail won't let that user forge the return headers, and the > return comes from the default set in sendmail configuration. Which is mentioned in the documentation: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php ;) Sendmail and exim definitely have this sort of problem, I don't think postfix or qmail do though. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/
