LAMP and EXIM4 (www-data issue)

[Andrea16]

I'm using a LAMP stack with UBUNTU and have recently installed EXIM4 to send email from PHP using mail() function.
It's all ok except the emails arrive from user "www-data" who I suppose it's Apache default user.

Received: from www-data by mypc-domain with local (Exim 4.69)
(envelope-from <myrealmail>)

How can I set that, I think changing Apache user is not the best option, better to "translate" it inside Exim, isn't it? 🙂

[amitG]

I have the exact same issue, I looked at the exim logs

2009-07-07 01:09:34 1MNzBe-0006pa-Jy <= [e-mail] U=www-data P=local S=538

How can i change the U=www-data to be the same as the 'realemail' field?
Is this even possible as I'm using a form on my website to send email and this
'realemail' is different for each user that visits my site?

[bradgrafelman]

Did you set the sendmail_from PHP attribute? How about using the '-f<email_address>' parameter as well?

[amitG]

Tried -f already without any success.

mail('[e-mail]', 'the subject', 'the message', null,
'[e-mail]');

results in

<= [e-mail] U=www-data P=local S=538

my apache2 process (running as www-data) is invoking sendmail which is symlinked to exim4.

I'll try setting the sendmail_from attribute and see if that works

[bradgrafelman]

You might try also adding the -F option as well (same syntax; -F<email>).

[Andrea16]

I think the solution to this is to be found among Exim configuration, rather than in PHP code...

[amitG]

mail('[e-mail]', 'the subject', 'the message', '[e-mail]',
'[e-mail]');

fixes the issue, note that i was passing null before and now I'm not!
Thanks everyone!

[amitG]

amitG;10920695 wrote:

mail('[e-mail]', 'the subject', 'the message', '[e-mail]',
'[e-mail]');

fixes the issue, note that i was passing null before and now I'm not!
Thanks everyone!

Correction
its

mail('[e-mail]', 'the subject', 'the message', 'From:[e-mail]',
'[e-mail]');