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Thanks a lot. this worked great. btw, this fifth parameter is not
documented!
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 17:38, Tim Jackson wrote:
> 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
>
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