note 42533 added to function.mail

We have the problem of having multiple virtual hosts on the one system. If any of these virtual hosts sends an email which bounces the bounces will go to whatever is set as the default return-path header. We wanted all bounces to return to the virtual hosts mail account so they can deal with the bounces instead of our sysadmin. You cannot set this in the headers in the mail() function so this will not work. $headers .= "Return-path: fred@mydomain.com.au\n"; You MUST set this when defining the virtual host with the following in the virtual host directive php_admin_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f from@mydomain.com.au" This can cause an extra header however to be added to messages stating that the return-path was modified like below. X-Authentication-Warning: mydomain.com.au: www set sender to postmaster@mydomain.com.au using -f Some spam programs will block messages with this header in them. So the solution is to add the user that your webserver runs as to the trusted users of sendmail. http://www.netsys.com/fwtk/1998/07/msg00052.html Now everything works as it should ;) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+42533 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+42533&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+42533&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php