Return-Path: <httpd>

[camerriman]

Installed osCommerce on a RAQ4 - PHP 4.1.2 - Does anyone have the solution on how to change both the Return-Path: and Received: (from httpd@localhost) to the store administrator email address? Without a proper return path etc. emails don't seem to make it through spam filters.

 

I can send/receive emails in and out of osCommerce to local accounts that do not have spam filters -

[camerriman]

Return-Path: Solved.

 

After looking through all the posts here - I was able to find a solution.

 

The solution is setting the $xtra_headers option to '-f' in both /includes/classes/email.php and admin/includes/classes/email.php

 

Look at or around line 500 for "if (EMAIL_TRANSPORT == ... " You can cut and paste this into both email.php files

      if (EMAIL_TRANSPORT == 'smtp') {
 return mail($to_addr, $subject, $this->output, 'From: ' . $from . $this->lf . 'To: ' . $to . $this->lf . implode($this->lf, $this->headers) . $this->lf . implode($this->lf, $xtra_headers),'-f' . $from_addr);
 } else {
 return mail($to, $subject, $this->output, 'From: '.$from.$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $this->headers).$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $xtra_headers),'-f' . $from_addr);
     }

[John-Doe]

Hi Craig,

 

would you know if this also results in getting return mails if the customer mail address does not exist? If so that would be exactly what I'm looking for :)

 

(going to try it anyway, I"ll post back if it works)

[John-Doe]

The Return-Path works fine now, thanks for that Craig :)

 

I"ll post back if it works

I promised, so here it is: It does not help to get the "failure notice" mails if the customers email address does not exists though :( But I did find another interesting thread about that subject here: http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23392

[John-Doe]

It does not help to get the "failure notice" mails if the customers email address does not exists though

Correction, it does help! Or at least it helps in my case.

 

I only had to fill in the real mail address in stead of $from_addr ($from_addr contains "Name <[email protected]>" i.s.o. "[email protected]").

 

So now mails sent from my shop to non existing mail addresses are returned with a "failure notice". That makes it much easyer to find out if the customer didn't make a typo when filling in his/her mail address.

[Guest]

Correction, it does help! Or at least it helps in my case.

 

I only had to fill in the real mail address in stead of $from_addr ($from_addr contains "Name <[email protected]>" i.s.o. "[email protected]").

 

How did you replace this?

It gave me an error when I changed it. (unexpected @)

[kahraman]

In my osommerce store the changes above for both email.php files does not have any effect, the return path remains the same, i use PHP-5 does someone nows the answer to this problem when this solution above does nog help ?

:blink:

 

Thanks in forward