RE: [Phpwebsite-developers] php mail() ignores "From" header

[Don S. <do...@se...>]

Or core could instantiate the Mail::factory object upon core 
initialization.  Although considering our memory conservation efforts 
perhaps we could just instantiate as needed and destroy after.

Don.

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Don Seiler wrote:

> Thanks Dean for the cluestick.  I did indeed need to change a setting that 
> way.  (See Dean's message below for details)
> 
> Now here are my results:
> 
> 1. Use php's mail() function:  works after changing setting
> 2. Use pear's Mail with 'mail' factory: works after changing setting (duh)
> 3. Use pear's Mail with 'sendmail' factory: works after changing setting
> 4. Use pear's Mail with 'smtp' factory: always works
> 
> Number 2 actually just is a wrapper for number 1 anyway.  So I like the 
> pear construct.  However from a developer point of view I would think that 
> the PHPWS core should have a "mail" type of thing to provide a core 
> factory and a settings interface for the site admin to set which of the 
> three types of factories that site should use and what params, if any, to 
> set.
> 
> So then the module would call something like:
> 
> $GLOBALS["core"]->sendmail($to, $headers, $message)
> 
> sendmail() would instantiate the Mail::factory object using the settings 
> from the settings table and then call the send() function on that object.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> Don.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Dean Urmson wrote:
> 
> > May be a config setting with your MTA (sendmail, qmail etc) that is
> > preventing the 'envelope from' header being set to anything but the user
> > owning the process that's sending the email.  Kinda a relaying, anti-spam
> > measure I think.
> > 
> > Vaguely remeber something about this a couple of years ago...
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > Dean
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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