[RESOLVED] Email from "nobody" help needed

[WhiteEagle]

I have been experiencing a condition whereby I can get E-Mail transmissions with attachments from the site that I am developing that are sent to my location ([e-mail]) while those also being sent to the intended recipient can not.

The PHP Mime code is:

$mime_boundary = "<<<--==+X[".md5(time())."]";

$headers .= "From: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n";
$headers .= "To: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n";	

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\r\n";
$headers .= " boundary=\"".$mime_boundary."\"";

$message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";

$message .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= "Hello! \r\n";
$message .= "There is a schedule to be processed in the FormResults folder. \r\n";
$message .= "The attachment is the following file: \r\n";
$message .= "\r\n";

$message .= "  ${cook2namE} \r\n";
$message .= "\r\n";

$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";

$fileContent = $stringtowrite; 
$message .= "Content-Type: application/octet-stream;\r\n";
$message .= " name=\"${cook2namE}.txt\"\r\n";

$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition: attachment;\r\n";
$message .= " filename=\"${cook2namE}.txt\"\r\n";

$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= $fileContent;
$message .= "\r\n";
$message .= "--".$mime_boundary."\r\n";

if ($tXmit != "No")
{
$ok2 = mail("[e-mail]", "Schedule Data Transmission", $message, $headers);
$ok3 = mail("[e-mail]", "Schedule Data Transmission", $message, $headers);
$ok4 = mail("[e-mail]", "Schedule Data Transmission", $message, $headers);
}

Note: the preceding yields the same results, being the following which was provided by the hosting people:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

[e-mail]
SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[e-mail]>:
host gallium.carolina.net [208.170.147.235]: 554
<[e-mail]>:
Sender address rejected: Mail from nobody is always spam
[e-mail]
(ultimately generated from [e-mail])
SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[e-mail]>:
host gallium.carolina.net [208.170.147.235]: 554
<[e-mail]>:
Sender address rejected: Mail from nobody is always spam

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from nobody by host1.web333.com with local (Exim 4.50)
id 1E3Igw-0007AB-Fv; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:26:14 -0500
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Schedule Data Transmission
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="<<<--==+X[b4f4259e1b5ff470062fccb76247140a]"
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:26:14 -0500
X-web333-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information
X-web333-MailScanner: Found to be clean
X-web333-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5.853,
required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -3.30, BAYES_00 -2.60,
MIME_QP_LONG_LINE 0.04, NO_REAL_NAME 0.01)
X-web333-MailScanner-From: [e-mail]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--<<<--==+X[b4f4259e1b5ff470062fccb76247140a]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hello!
There is a schedule to be processed in the FormResults folder.
The attachments are the following files:

with the rest of the attachments following that line.

The transmission that is directed to [e-mail] is forwarded to My HotMail address ([e-mail]) and I have always received everything that I have sent to that address, yet the site owner ([e-mail]) has not.

The obvious is that somehow the From “Nobody” need fixing, but I am stumped at this point as to how. So any and all assistance will be most appreciated.

White Eagle

[rebelo]

I believe this is relative to your PHP or Sendmail setup on the server and probably not something you can change in your script. I assume it's a result of the fact that the mail is being sent by apache which is run as nobody (so sendmail sees that username). I think to work around this would require changing the way sendmail handles it or perhaps something in php.ini, but I really don't know for sure. Try looking at the Mail section of the PHP manual.

[WhiteEagle]

Thanks for your help.

White Eagle