On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Dick van der Kaaden wrote: > What you think about a version of sendmail that has an option to use the Fr= > om:=20 > header address as smtp mail from. Do you envision any problems with this? > > The thing is that the current behavior does not work well in the shared=20 > hosting environment that we operate for our customers. Most of the these=20 > sites use php and the php mail function. This function does not allow you t= > o=20 > set the smtp mail from and it simply calls xmail's sendmail.=20 > > Sendmail's default behavior is to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as mail from. This is > n= > ot=20 > very usefull! It will not allow our customers to receive bounces. Setting t= > he=20 > domain in a virtualhost definition does not help either, since you cannot s= > et=20 > the username. Asking our customers to create an [EMAIL PROTECTED] email=20 > address to receive bounces is not very user friendly. Forcing them to use a= > n=20 > smtp mailer is also not user friendly.=20 > > I looked at sendmail and worked out how a way to implement this.=20 > > =2D All rcpt to's are stored in a new temporary file.=20 > =2D No output is sent to szmailfile before having read all email headers.=20 > =2D While reading thru the headers I set the szmailfrom to the address on t= > he=20 > =46rom line.=20 > =2D If there is no From line or the From line contains an invalid address=20 > (according to AddressFromAtPtr) then nothing gets set and sendmail will use= > =20 > szmailfrom as previously setup in SysGetUserAddress.=20 > =2D After reading the headers, dump the mail from and rcpt to lines. > > If you are interested in the code them let me know.
Dick, isn't it possible to do something on the PHP side? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
