PHP script sends email as Nobody

[lemonsensation]

I am having problems PHP scripts. When the php script tries to send out an email, it sends the email as "nobody@MYHOSTNAME.com" when the web address and MYHOSTNAME are totally different. So to solve this problem, I turn on "Prevent the user 'nobody' from sending out mail to remote addresses (php and cgi scripts generally run as nobody if you are not using phpsuexec and suexec respectively.)"

After doing that, emails get stuck in the Mail Queue of the server. It says the email it was trying to send to has an "unrouteable mail domain".

I tried the PHPsuexec and it fixed the problem. However, I would like to keep phpsuexec off, if possible.

Bascially the "Return-path:" and "Received:" says it's from "nobody@myhostname.com" . Is there a way to fix this? I am reading and it seems to be a limitation of PHP, but there must be a solution because I've used other hosts without phpsuexec and I was able to send out mail with PHP.

[ckh]

I do something like:

$return="returnaddress@somewhere.com";
$email="SendToSomeone@hisdomain.com";
$subject="blah blah blah";
$body="more blah blah blah";

mail("$email", $subject, $body, "FROM: $returnemail","-f$returnemail");


This makes the 'return path' & 'from' to contain the email address returnaddress@somewhere.com

I also have:

trusted_users = nobody
untrusted_set_sender = *

in the first box of the exim configuration editor.....

Chris

[lemonsensation]

hm... I'm trying out the

trusted_users = nobody
untrusted_set_sender = *

in the exim conf. editor, but it doesn't seem to work. The php script is still trying to send out the mail using "nobody@myhostname.com", so the email is not being sent and it's going into my Mail Queue.

I forgot the say that this is not a custom PHP script, so i can't try out that code in PHP. I'm using Drupal which is a CMS. I am pretty sure Drupal is configured correctly. I would imagine this is not Drupal's fault but it is that I have not configured something properly.

[ccccanada]

as long as you have the setting

Prevent the user 'nobody' from sending out mail to remote addresses (php and cgi scripts generally run as nobody if you are not using phpsuexec and suexec respectively.)

checked in WHM the server will not send emails from the user nobody.

[lemonsensation]

ccccanada: I had the whole concept of PHP mail sending out as 'nobody' and phpsuexec mixed up in my head and I was expecting it to do something that it can't. Thanks for clearing it up.

[ccccanada]

No problem at all.

By looking at your post it finaly made me search for this problem and found the other post which had the solution so it helped me as well.