Flash email tool on a unix platform

[willymj]

Hi there,

I have been using a flash based email tool on a Linux platform and it worked fine. I then moved onto a unix platform and it doesn't. The ISP sent me this instruction..

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For this you can use the PHP function “mail”. The correct way to use this function on our Unix hosting server is :

mail("recipient","subject","content","From: sender","-f sender")

Don’t forget to specify the “-f” variable.

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I know that the mail() function only has 4 arguments so does this mean include the "sender" and "f-sender" into my $headers?

Also where do I specify "-f" variable?

Please help my nose is starting to bleed! 😕

here is my code...

<?php

$sendTo = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "My Flash site reply";

$headers = "From: " . $POST["name"] . "<". $POST["email"] . ">"\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $POST["email"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-path: " . $POST["email"];

$message = $_POST["message"];

mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>

[_uk_stuff]

The -f is a flag that is set by the unix host to only allow trusted users the ability to send using their sendmail binary.

Here is the blurb from the php.net site ...

The additional_parameters parameter can be used to pass an additional parameter to the program configured to use when sending mail using the sendmail_path configuration setting. For example, this can be used to set the envelope sender address when using sendmail with the -f sendmail option.

The user that the webserver runs as should be added as a trusted user to the sendmail configuration to prevent a 'X-Warning' header from being added to the message when the envelope sender (-f) is set using this method. For sendmail users, this file is /etc/mail/trusted-users.

If you want the full info go to http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php and read the additional_information section.

[willymj]

Thanks for that... your a star! I'll check it out and discover more about additional_parameters. Cheers Willymj 😃