On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Matthew Ford wrote:
> I installed Web Alpine on my Apache server, and everything seemed to be
> working fine... until I noticed something about the outbound mail it was
> sending. Since Web Alpine is a process running under the user-id of the
> webserver ("daemon", "www" or whatever), sendmail will put the daemon's
> username in the Return-path, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any delivery failure messages will therefore end up in
> the administrator's inbox, not the user's. This can be avoided by
> specifying an SMTP server for outbound mail, of course - but surely it
> should be *obligatory* to use an SMTP server, if sendmail will always do
> the wrong thing?
sendmail has a concept of "trusted users" (a config file setting).
If the user UID isn't "trusted" then sendmail will not let them
set the Return-path value, it will explicitly set that name to
the user's name. If they are "trusted" then senmail will let them
set the Return-path & From to what ever they want.
Long story short, add your webserver user-id to sendmail's "Trusted users"
list.
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