asked on 1/22/2009

Suse / Apache mail. Sender is WWW daemon apache.

I'm on a SUSE 11 box.
I am sending emails from a php script but the from address is showing WWW daemon apache. How do I change this? It is not accepting the "from" code that works on a Windows / Apache box.

ini_set('sendmail_from', 'sendername@mailserver.com');
 
	$emailaddr="recipient@mailserver.com";
 
	$mailsend = mail($emailaddr, $subj, $mess, $headers);

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ISHUC

1/22/2009

GarbsTheTurtle

1/22/2009

You use $headers in your mail() call, but I don't see $headers being set anywhere. Have you set the From: attribute in $headers? See http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php for more headers to pass.

ini_set('sendmail_from', 'sendername@mailserver.com');
 
        $emailaddr="recipient@mailserver.com";
 
        $headers = 'From: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n";
        
        // Other headers
        //$headers .= 'Reply-To: webmaster@example.com' . "\r\n";
        
        $mailsend = mail($emailaddr, $subj, $mess, $headers);

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ISHUC

1/22/2009

ASKER

The reason that I did use the $headers (or left is blank) is that depending on the selections, it could come from 2 different accounts.

$destination='file_uploads'."/".$_POST[Req_ID].'_'.$passedfile;
$piemail=$_POST[PI_email];
$piname=$_POST[PI_Name];
 
$subj=$_POST[Req_ID]."_".$_POST[Note_Date]."_".$piname."_".$_POST[group]."_Research Central Project";
 
$mess='This is an automated email from the Research Central Notes system.
Request ID: '.$_POST[Req_ID].'
Note Date: '.$_POST[Note_Date].'
Note Time: '.$_POST[Note_Time].'
Time Spent: '.$_POST[timespent].'
Author: '.$_POST[Note_Person].'
CCTST Affiliation: '.$_POST[group].'
Ticket Inactive: '.$_POST[activestatus].'
Notes: '.$_POST[Notes];
$headers = '';
//*********************************************************
if ($_POST[Email_CCHMC_Informatics] == "yes")
	{
	if($_POST[Email_Investigator] == "yes")
		{
		ini_set('sendmail_from', $piemail);
		}
	Else
		{
		ini_set('sendmail_from', 'researchcentral@ucmail.uc.edu');
		}
 
	$emailaddr="cchmcinformatics@cctst.cchmc.org";
 
	$mailsend = mail($emailaddr, $subj, $mess, $headers);
	//  echo "<h1><center>Mail sent</center></h1>";
	}

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GarbsTheTurtle

1/22/2009

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GarbsTheTurtle

1/22/2009

Also note that ini_set('sendmail_from', ... ) only works on windows. Now that you're on a Linux system, you can remove those ini_set() lines.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/mail.configuration.php#ini.sendmail-from

ISHUC

1/22/2009

ASKER

you're awesome!