Change From: address for mail from PHP

[lbauer]

We have a customer that needs to set the email address that PHP sends mail as. They have tried setting it via their formmail script, with no sucess. If I look at the results of phpinfo() for their website it is showing sendmail_path as

/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f [email protected]

Which I think is the source of the problem. Is there a way that I can set this manually for their domain?

 

[jmstacey]

You should be able to do it with php's mail() function adding the wanted extra headers overiding that setting (which is a link to exim)
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

 

[lbauer]

Yep, we gave that a shot, but we can't over write the original return-path line, which is causing the problem with their mail firewall. So I am thinking we need to override that sendmail line.

 

[ballyn]

You can change this in their httpd.conf file, but if they make any changes to the config it will get overwritten. This is hardcoded in the httpd.conf template.

 

[lbauer]

Would it be possible to add it to the Custom HTTPD configurations? That would solve the problem of the change disappearing after an upgrade.

 

[lbauer]

Just tried adding:

php_admin_value sendmail_path '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f [email protected]'

to the httpd customization section and it put it at the top of the virtual host section. It didn't work, so I wonder if it is being overridden by the default one further down.

 

[ballyn]

Very likely. Apache will typically take the last directive it sees without any errors, warnings, etc.

 

[lbauer]

Is there any way to make the custom settings show up at the bottom of the list?