Re: Mail Problem

> I have an issue with sending email via PHP which may be a configuration problem with either > PHP, Apache, or possibly a Sendmail, but I don't know which yet. I figured I'd start here > first. > > Here's the situation. I have several webpages that send email to users for various > reasons. We have our webserver, an intranet webserver, configured to connect to our smtp server > which sits on a different box. The script looks like this: > > <?PHP > $from = "webmaster@swimwebs.com"; > $to = "someemail@swimwebs.com"; > $subject = "Test"; > $msg = "This is a test from my sitennTimestamp: " . date("r"); > $headers = "From:$fromrn"; > if(!mail($to,$subject,$msg,$headers)) { die("Unable to send"); } > ?> > > This works great when it works. Users receive email as expected and when they hit reply it goes > back to the webmaster email address. The problem is if the to email address isn't a valid one. > When this happens, the mail server bounces the message back to apache@intranet-server instead of > webmaster@swimwebs.com. > > I've tried adding reply-to to the mail headers and that doesn't work either. We > tried sending the same failed message using webmin and that worked great, which is why I believe > this to be a PHP or Apache problem. Is it a UNIX box? Sendmail takes the -f parameter in your php.ini to configure its envelope from address... Does not extract it from message headers. The fifth argument to mail() also supports doing this if you need to change it on a per-mail basis. I would just set it in php.ini. (like: sendmail_path = '/usr/bin/sendmail -f webmaster@domain') If its a Win box there is a sendmail_from config param in php.ini. php.net/manual/function.mail.php read for 'Additional Params' the fifth argument, it specifically deals with this case. Travis