Re: [openupload-devel] No email notification

[Alessandro B. <ts...@br...>]

ee...@la... ha scritto:
> Alessandro Briosi a écrit :
>> Hi Edgar,
>> The e-mail function is in lib/general.inc.php
>> the function is sendmail() which then calls the php native mail()
>> function
> Hi Alessandro,
> 
> Thank you, i'm going to ask my hosting support if they have an idea.
> 
> In their FAQ they write about sendmail :
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> 1- My php or perl forms providing access to sendmail or used for
> uploading files (the server sends "ok" to the browser, but nothing
> happens) don't work any more. What's the reason?
> Following recent waves of spam and an injection of urls on our servers,
> we have added a new rule on our servers blocking access for POST type
> requests with "http" in the QUERY_STRING.
> 
> As a result you shouldn't make POST type requests with "http://" in the
> QUERY_STRING; you only need to enter www.domain.xyz for example instead
> of http://www.domain.xyz

I don't think I do this, but should check to be sure. afair I always use 
./index.php in forms with post, but I might be mistaken.

> 
> 2- How can I send email from my site via the server, without authentication?
> As far as possible you need to use the PHP mail() function on the
> server, and not send emails via the SMTP servers. You shouldn't specify
> a sender email address (leave the relevant box blank)
> 
> With mail(), it isn't possible to send email with your PHP or Perl
> scripts. You need to use sendmail (in this case the path being
> /usr/sbin/sendmail), or specify SMTP "localhost" as server, namely the
> server where your site is hosted and which has its own mail server.
> 
> You therefore need to add to your config
> 
> $smtp_server = "localhost";
> 
> 3- Where can I find sendmail?
> /usr/sbin/sendmail
> 
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> Does it help you ?
> 

This does clarify some things.
1. as stated they suggest to use the php mail() function which is what I 
do, but to leave the sender empty, so try changing line 270 in 
lib/general.inc.php to this:

return mail($to,$subject,$msg,$header); /* remove the from part */

2. If this does not work we should use sendmail directly which is a bit 
more complex. If 1 does not solve the problem then I'll send you a 
change to use sendmail directly.
We do not use an smtp server so that part is not relevant.

Hope this helps,
Alessandro