Its possible change nobody@ ?

[leorevenda]

Hello,

Its possible change nobody@ origin of messagens sended by php scripts? I have problems with many providers blocking [email protected]

Thank you

 

[nisse]

In the top box of the Advanced Exim Configuration Editor, add these lines:

untrusted_set_sender = *
local_from_check     = false
local_sender_retain  = true

Then in the box underneath "REWRITE CONFIGURATION", add this line:

nobody@lsearch;/etc/localdomains "${if !eq {$header_From:}{}{$header_sender:$header_From:}fail}" Fs

 

[verdon]

what's this actually do?

 

[easyhoster1]

you may want to read this thread;

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=47711

 

[Murtaza_t]

you may want to read this thread;

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=47711

Awesome dude...... thanks for that

 

[electron33]

Wouldn't this reveal the username then? I find it hard to justify changin nobody to username just because some ISP's are being too strict.

 

[electron33]

That's a very valid point. Fortunately, I've rarely had to deal with spammers on our servers since we pick our customers with extra care. I understand spammers don't have to be our customers and can use the server to do their job.

 

[dalem]

for all you copy & pasters there is a space in the fail} "fai l}" above

you have to close the gap to get it to run

and just a side note it will enter the reply to address in the script if it has one which it should

 

[andyf]

I'd question whether it's a good idea to let the user specify the envelope sender. A more acceptable method would be to have the envelope sender set to system_username_of_sender@senders_main_domain.tld

Then at least if someone spams you will know because the messages are returned to you.

 

[pross]

I'm not sure this is working properly...

if i have a mail() with $to $subject and $message and $from the $from gets rewritten as the from address by exim..ok good so far..now if i do the same mail($to,$subjet,$message); without the $from exim now just sends it as nobody at servername.com so is this right?

 

[chirpy]

Yes, that's how it works. If you set the From: field it rewrite the header record, otherwise it sets it as it would do normally.

 

[GeekPatrolMille]

I experience this error when I implement the solution mentioned above

Configuration file has an invalid syntax. Please try again.
Mail Scanner exim.conf updating...2006-03-07 08:04:49 both local_from_check and local_sender_retain are set; this combination is not allowed
Exim version 4.52 #1 built 16-Aug-2005 05:03:50


I remark the local_sender_retain line to get by error but the local_from_check is found in a non-editable area. This seems like it defeats the purpose. I know I can exit the actual exim config file but is this really what needs to happen to make this solution work?

Just Being cautious...

Thanks,
-greg

 

[dalem]

you have as space in your fail you copied & pasted "fai l"


see my post above

 

[jols]

This is great, but still a lot of "nobody" spam is being sent, e.g. from a simple php newsletter type script, that is until we find it and delete it.

Here's the main header in such a script that goes out with the email:

Received: from nobody by servername.ourdomain.com with local (Exim 4.52)

So how can I tweak this:
nobody@lsearch;/etc/localdomains "${if !eq {$header_From:}{}{$header_sender:$header_From:}fail}" Fs

To also catch this:
Received: from nobody by servername.ourdomain.com with local (Exim 4.52)


By the way, the actual from header is usually something like this:
From: PayPal Inc. <[email protected]>


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Here's my guess, but I hesitate to try this in fear of breaking exim:
"from nobody" "${if !eq {$header_Received:}{}{$header_sender:$header_Received:}fail}" Fs


Or would I need to use something like:
from+nobody "${if !eq {$header_Received:}{}{$header_sender:$header_Received:}fail}" Fs

 

[ffeingol]

This thread is quite old and I just wanted someone to verify that this is still applicable with "new" cPanel, "new" exim configurations etc.

TIA,

Frank

 

[jols]

Hi Frank,

This is how I got it to work:

WHM ---> Exim Configuration Editor ---> Advanced Editor ---> REWRITE CONFIGURATION (then insert this in the field just below):

nobody@lsearch;/etc/localdomains "${if !eq {$header_From:}{}{$header_sender:$header_From:}fail}" Fs

 

[easyhoster1]

Remember;

fai l}"

Needs to be fail ....this forum puts a whitespace in the code