Sendmail and Mail

[Anon]

Sendmail appears to be sending email from php scripts on our server with a from address as "apache@localhost", and hence they are getting bounced by a lot of ISPs.

I think I have the correct settings in php.ini (running on linux by the way) :

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [e-mail]

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: 'sendmail -t -i').
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail

I also changed the following line in sendmail.cf as suggested by one post I found on this board, but no joy :
HReceived🙁from [e-mail])

The bounced emails headers look like :

The original message was received at Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:04:09 GMT
from apache@localhost

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
[e-mail]
(reason: 501 <[e-mail]>... Sender domain must exist)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to www.theirdomain.com.:

MAIL From:<[e-mail]> SIZE=574
<<< 501 <[e-mail]>... Sender domain must exist
501 5.6.0 Data format error
Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain
Arrival-Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:04:09 GMT

Final-Recipient: RFC822; [e-mail]
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.2
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 501 <[e-mail]>... Sender domain must exist
Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:04:09 GMT
Return-Path: <apache>
Received: (from [e-mail])
œby localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g09H49601813;
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:04:09 GMT
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:04:09 GMT
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: The email
From: [e-mail]
Reply-To: [e-mail]

Any suggestions greatfully received!

[Anon]

Can you send email from this box as another user? I just set up Sendmail on a new box and I was sending mail as [e-mail] for awhile. You need to set up the hostname of your server. Look at the /etc/hosts file and also at the hostname command.

[amcgrath]

by chance. have you restarted the web server so it can take effect?