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Hello,<br />
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We run a LAMP server running CentOS 5, Postfix 2.3.3, and PHP5.x &nbsp; When our PHP scripts send out email with the PHP mail() function, users's receive the emails with a Sender of &quot;Apache&quot; in the From area of the email.<br />
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We would like to be able to change &quot;Apache&quot; to something else, and have the change be global so that all of our PHP scripts that use the mail() function (there are many of them) will have this same new Sender name.<br />
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Thank you in advance.<br />
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Karl Cox
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Hello,

We run a LAMP server running CentOS 5, Postfix 2.3.3, and PHP5.x   When our PHP scripts send out email with the PHP mail() function, users's receive the emails with a Sender of "Apache" in the From area of the email.

We would like to be able to change "Apache" to something else, and have the change be global so that all of our PHP scripts that use the mail() function (there are many of them) will have this same new Sender name.

Thank you in advance.

Karl Cox

Change Sender Name in Postfix?

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