Re: sendmail_from in linux installation

From: Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:13:16 +0000
Subject: Re: sendmail_from in linux installation
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Daniel Lorch wrote:

> on un*x, PHP passes your mails directly to sendmail/qmail/exim or whatever
> mail software is running on your machine. if you're using windows, PHP
> uses it's own SMTP function instead. that's the difference.
> 
> The "from" in your mail header therefore comes from your mail transfer
> agent and has little to do with PHP. therefore you have to look for
> this problem there.

I don't understand this. I can set headers in fourth argument to mail 
function so I can send 
mail("somebody@foo.bar","Hello","msgbody","From:spammer")
If user does not set 4th argumment mail is sent with from nobody@dsland.org

This is what I want to prevent.
Thanks in advance.




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