sendmail and "-f" switch

[Guest]

Hope I'm asking this in the right forum.

 

All my mail stopped working, and I find I need to add the"-f" switch to the mail() function, so that a correct From header is sent. Anyone know where on catalog/includes/classes/email.php I add it? the version I'm using is: email.php,v 1.1.1.1 2002/11/28 23:22:41.

 

Should it be part of the $xtra_headers array?

[Guest]

On some servers, in the email function, you must have a fith option in the mail() function to set the from header. (See http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php scroll to the bottom and read the user comments for more info).

 

That is where I found the answer that works for me, using the ini_set() function.

 

Open /catalog/includes/classes/email.php and at around line 501, change:

else {

       return mail($to, $subject, $this->output, 'From: '.$from.$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $this->headers).$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $xtra_headers));

     }

to

else {

    ini_set(sendmail_from, "me@mydomain.com");

       return mail($to, $subject, $this->output, 'From: '.$from.$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $this->headers).$this->lf.implode($this->lf, $xtra_headers));

       ini_restore(sendmail_from);

  }

Read more about the ini_set() function at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ini-set.php

 

Hope this helps someone.

[csokolov]

Thank you very much for sharing your work with all. I appreciate this.

 

However, this fix has not worked for me. My "Return-To" still reads "apache@mydomain.com" instead of the value I entered in the script modifications.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks,

 

Christopher.