Chris wrote:
Any light anyone can throw on the 'nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx' address
would be
most welcome.
It is using the apache user @ your host name as the default. Try this:
ini_set('sendmail_from', 'whatever@xxxxxxxxxxxx');
I will try this but I do not understand why it should work. I have a
'From:...' entry in my headers. Why is this not being used as the
primary from address and why is 'nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx' being added
instead as the first from address ? In other words, I can understand
if I supply no 'From:...' header entry that a default
'nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx' would be used but I do not understand why it is
used even when I supply a 'From:...' header entry.
"From: " is used by your mail client to show who it's from.
the ini_set (or you can set the 5th param to the mail() function) is a
return-path. If the message bounces (recipient's mailbox full, server
down, whatever the reason) it gets delivered to that address. They serve
different purposes.
Does ini_set actually change the php.ini file in any way ? The reason I
ask is that after putting in:
ini_set('sendmail_from', 'myemail@xxxxxxxxxxxx');
into a new script which I tested out against, the 'mail' function now
continues to work but no e-mail is received no matter what the recipient
e-mail is. Even is I go back to using my old script which does not have
the 'ini_set' in it, no e-mail actually gets receoved even though 'mail'
succeeds when called. So I have gone from bad to worse and the ini_set
seems to have affected all calls to 'mail' in this way for PHP scripts
on the server.
Can I correct but somehow stopping PHP ( or may Apache ) and restarting
it again to bring back the original php.ini setting ?
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