Re: Sendmail User ID

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well man I'd consider the choice of invoking sendmail -f, it's right what I need to do, but how can I do so in the mail function ? Is there something I have to alter in the php.ini file ? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Hough" <rch@solveinteractive.com> To: "Yurais Fernandez Leal" <yurais@medired.scu.sld.cu> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Sendmail User ID > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Yurais Fernandez Leal wrote: > > > But the mails are been sent as nobody@webserver > > It would help to post the actual snippet of code your using. It > could be any number of things. Though, what I think you are > experiencing, is soemething I dealt with a few days ago. > > > nobody is the user that runs the web server. > > You are probably talking about the Return-Path, which can be > changed by invoking sendmail with the -f option. You will need to > setup a trusted user for this though. > > > Should I run the web server as a different user so that the mails > > get sent as this user instead of nobody ? > > If you setup the trusted user stuff in sendmail, I highly advise > changing the uid from nobody to something else. You must also > consider the serious possibility of someone taking advantage of > this on you. > > Hope that helps, good luck. > > -- > Robert Hough (rch@solveinteractive.com) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOmeF8UfSljpOGnYdEQIPmwCghNZ3T10g5KbYT2itN3X08sGIb10AniuR RoAoX8G4DGlBi/S2+ty8ZvER =GYr6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----