re: send via postfix - wrong sender

Anon

has anyone managed to get round the problem of postfix sending mail with the envelope header "sender" as apache I am trying to use postaci (webmail-php4) scripts but I need the sender to be the same as the message from line or all bounced mail comes back to user apache not the actual webmail user

if I put /usr/sbin/sendmail -f in the php.ini file then I need to build the send command to put "send user@domain (user,domain,subject,message) etc/or something but I can't get it to work and I can't find a way to get postfix to rewrite the envelope header

so my current plan is to write a procmail recipe to filter and forward mail recieved by apache back to the original user but this seems a bit clumsy way of doing it

can anyone help
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andreas

i'm not sure if i understand what you meen but it seems like your trying to do this:

mail($recepient, "Subject", $message, "From: some@whe.re");

Hope this helps

Andreas

Anon

sorry if I didnt explain clearly

but the problem is that postfix takes the message with its "to" and "from" and wraps it in an envelope with a different "sender"

postfix takes the envelope sender heading as being the process owner ie. in the case of a php/apache script the process owner is apache

so if the message is correctly received then every thing is ok because the recipient sees the correct to and from information but if the user does not exist at the other server then that mail server will return the mail to the envelope address not the message address. So the message is bounced back to apache

Anon

I have a similar problem:
every mail I send through my webmailer gets the sender (and reply to) address: Apache <apache@domain.com>.
Is it a configuration problem with apache and senmail, or with php in apache?

Anon

The answer is in the PHP.ini file. The command for sendmail should be

sendmail -t $senderaddress

and then in your PHP script you need to construct your sender address from user input.

Anon

Hi,
ive found your answer to this big Question. But i don´t do not really understand, what i have to type in the php.ini. Can you send me a little script?

best regards
Lars

Anon

there is no need for any script.

in the php.ini file where it says "path to sendmail" put /usr/sbin/sendmail -t $SENDER"

or something similar (checkout where your path to the sendmail program is ,or the postfix equiv.)

the variable $SENDER can then be constructed from your sendmail.php or equiv script. So that when you send a email now the correct envelope "from" header will be applied instead of apache.