note 59449 added to function.mail

I have been using mail() in my PHP scripts OK, until my hosting company suddenly disabled sending mail from the 'nobody' user (though PHP scripts are still running under this user). They say they somehow fight spam this way... Anyway, while surfing on this issue, I found out lots of people came across the same. The suggested solutions were: 1. Try sending e-mails with the additional -f parameter for sendmail, like: <?php mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers, '-f webmaster@yoursite.com'); ?> I tried this and this didn't work for me. 2. Try setting the ini option "sendmail_from" before sending (which is an alternative to the above solution). <?php ini_set('sendmail_from','webmaster@yoursite.com'); mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers); ?> I tried this and this didn't work for me either. 3. If you govern your server and it is Apache, you can install phpsuexec (own site, http://www.phpsuexec.com, under construction now) or suPHP (http://www.suPHP.org) module so PHP scripts run under the respective hosting user instead of nobody. This was not an option for me because I only own a single hosting account and cannot force the hosting company install either module. 4. Get some class like phpMailer (http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/) and have it send your mail through SMTP. I think I will stop at this one. Please comment if anyone has better ideas. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+59449 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59449&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59449&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59449&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59449&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59449&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59449&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59449&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+59449&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php