[thelist] All emails from php are from nobody

CDitty mail at redhotsweeps.com
Sun Oct 22 20:08:55 CDT 2000


Thanks all.  Turns out, I forgot to put a \n on the From: header.  Added 
that and all worked fine.  I remember now that it is needed on some systems 
and not on others.

Thanks for the help

CDitty

At 12:55 PM 10/22/00, you wrote:
>CDitty wrote:
> >
> > I recently moved from a BSD server to a Linux server and now all my emails
> > that are php generated are sent from "nobody".  Can anyone offer a
> > suggestion as to how to fix this?  The php mail code hasn't changed and
> > worked find before.
> >
> > I think it might be something with apache or sendmail.  Any ideas?
>
>When I send mail with Perl (I know not the same) I use the -tn switches. 
>This way I
>can tell sendmail who I am directly.
>
>e.g.
>
>     $varSendMail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -n";
>
>     open (MAIL, "| $varSendMail") || print "cannot open mail program";
>             print MAIL "To: $EmailResultsTo \n";
>             print MAIL "From: WebServer\@Foo.net \n";
>             print MAIL "Subject: $varEmailSubject\n\n";
>
>             print MAIL " $varEmailBody\n";
>             print MAIL " \n\n";
>     close(MAIL) || print "mail pipe exited $?";
>
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