windows/php from problems?

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 21/11/05, Jan Agermose <ja at conviator.com> wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> This might be off topic J Im running a windows server, IIS6 and PHP. When
>> sending mails from PHP on windows it seams to ignore the From header
>> information set? Or is it something in mailscanner?
>>
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>> Looking at the mail in the mailscanner log I get the bellow. As you can se I
>> do set a "From: " in the header, but still mailwatch displays the from-part
>> as empty? This is from the table in the detail-display of a message:
>>
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>> Message Headers:
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>> Return-Path: <�g>
>>  Received: from echo.csite.com ([213.150.56.221])
>>       by scanner1.mailwall.dk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jALMFv0L003745
>>       for <mediconnect at edventure.dk>; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:15:57 +0100
>>  Received: from echo ([127.0.0.1])
>>  by echo.csite.com (ConviatorMailServer) with SMTP id FFM74443
>>  for <mediconnect at edventure.dk>; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:09:17 +0100
>>  Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:09:17 +0100
>>  Subject: Tilmelding til database - udviklet af edventure
>>  To: mediconnect at edventure.dk
>>  From: jan at agermose.com
>>  Return-Path: <jan at agermose.com>
>>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>>  Message-ID: <1132610957jan at agermose.com>
>>
>>
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>> From:
>>
>> To: mediconnect at edventure.dk
>>
>> Subject: Tilmelding til Mediconnects database - udviklet af edventure
> 
> This would've fitted better on the MailWatch list (find it via
> http://mailwatch.sf.net), but basically what you've missed doing is to
> set an "envelope sender" (used for the "MAIL FROM: ..." in smtp)... I
> suppose you've used the PEAR mail factory class? Then you can have a
> look at the php code for mailwatch to see how that is set up to get
> these things right (grep for QUARANTINE_FROM_ADDR, and you'll see it
> pretty well).
> 
> --
> -- Glenn
> email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
> work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se

Check in your php.ini for

; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = me at example.com

You can also override this at runtime with a ini_set()

Regards,

-- 
Ugo

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