Hi Martin, on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:44:50 -0300 you wrote:
> we're now using php's mail() function (which calls sendmail/exim)
> how can I specify the envelope sender? Should I change the way php calls
> sendmail? (currently is /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i)
If you're not running in safe mode, and the user which the webserver runs
as is in Exim's trusted_users list, you can use the fifth parameter of the
mail() function to pass "-f<address>" to Exim, which will set the sender.
Alternatively, it can be set globally or on a per-virtual-host basis by
adding an "-f" option to the sendmail_path option. For example, using
Apache, to set the sender for a particular virtual host, use something
like this:
sendmail -t -i -fblah@???
to set the sender to blah@??? .
I have to say that the PHP guys could really do with adding an
MTA-independent way/parameter to pass the sender when creating a mail,
which works in Safe Mode and doesn't allow execution of arbitrary
commands. The "fifth parameter" is a bit of a fudge and isn't very
portable.
Tim
