Re: Emailing dilemma
| From: | Miles Thompson | Date: | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:06:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Emailing dilemma | ||
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> > On Nov 26, 2007 3:21 PM, George Pitcher
> > <george.pitcher@ingenta.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have almost 30 websites that use PEAR::Mail to send emails on
> > behalf of
> > > users at universities (one site for each) to lecturers at the same
> > > university.
> > >
> > > The problem I have is that if a lecturer sets an 'Out of Office'
> status,
> > > it
> > > gets bounced back to my server instead of to the user at the
> university.
> > >
> > > I did have the 'From' set to the user's email address, but that
> > > wasn't
> > > very
> > > successful ats it caused problems with the universities' anti-spam
> > > systems.
> > >
> > > I've tried using ini_set('sendmail_from',$useremail); but that
> > > doesn't
> > > seem
> > > to work either.
> > >
> > > Can anyone point me in the right direction, please?
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > George in Edinburgh
> > >
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miles Thompson [mailto:milesthom@gmail.com]
> Sent: 26 November 2007 8:44 pm
> To: PHP List
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Emailing dilemma
>
>
> George,
>
> Had this problem a year ago, although I'm not using PEAR. Have a look at
> http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
> and this down in the additional_parameters(optional) section:
>
> "For example, this can be used to set the envelope sender address
> when using
> sendmail with the *-f* sendmail option."
>
> It is not well documented, don't know if this helps, but it may get you
> started.
>
> Cheers - Miles
>
> On Nov 27, 2007 10:13 AM, George Pitcher <george.pitcher@ingenta.com>
> wrote:
> Miles,
>
> I see that tha manual talks about a trusted sender list
> (/etc/mail/trusted-users). Do you know if there is something similar for a
> Windows NT server?
>
> Cheers
>
> George
>
Sorry George, can't help you as my experience with Windows mail servers is
zero.
Miles