Emails sent out have no sender

linuxboy69 · 06-14-2004, 11:06 AM

I have noticed that some of my emails that are being sent out have no sender. I know this is again RFC policy so I am trying to fix it but I don't know where to start looking. I have programs that I wrote in php that automatically send out email. Are my programs not entering in the sender or is that something that sendmail is configured to do. Am I suppose to have something configured in the sendmail.mc file that I don't have possibly.

Here is an example email:

From MAILER-DAEMON@<mydomain>.com Mon Jun 14 08:39:17 2004
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:39:17 -0600
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@<mydomain>.com>
To: postmaster@<mydomain>.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
boundary="i5EEdH830859.1087223957/<mydomain>.com"
Subject: Postmaster notify: see transcript for details
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (postmaster-notification)

This is a MIME-encapsulated message

--i5EEdH830859.1087223957/<mydomain>.com

The original message was received at Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:39:16 -0600
from apache@localhost
with id i5EEdG930856

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
mrsathya@india.com
(reason: 550 <>: No thank you rejected: Account Unavailable, Possible Forgery)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to india-com.mr.outblaze.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<cathyg@india.com>
<<< 550 <>: No thank you rejected: Account Unavailable, Possible Forgery
550 5.1.1 mrsathya@india.com... User unknown
550 5.1.1 @... User unknown

--i5EEdH830859.1087223957/<mydomain>.com
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; <mydomain>.com
Arrival-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:39:16 -0600

Final-Recipient: RFC822; cathyg@india.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; india-com.mr.outblaze.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 <>: No thank you rejected: Account Unavailable, Possible Forgery
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:39:17 -0600

bulliver · 06-14-2004, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Are my programs not entering in the sender

Well, you should know if you wrote the scripts.

Using php's mail() function you can specify the sender, so it gets put in the headers:

Code:

mail("someone@foo.com","Hello there", "hello",
	"From: me@myaddress.com\r\nReply-to: me@myaddress.com");

Of course if you are scripting it, it will look more like:

Code:

$mail_to = "someone@foo.com";
$subject = "Hello there";
$message = "hello";
$mail_from = "From: me@myaddress.com\r\nReply-to: me@myaddress.com";
mail($mail_to,$subject,$message,$mail_from);

HTH

linuxboy69 · 06-21-2004, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Well, you should know if you wrote the scripts

It is not that easy because I deal with dynamic data so I am trying to determine whether my email program is putting in @ as the sender address or sendmail is doing that for some reason. I believe that it is my php scripts on the web server cause I get messages such as:

Authentication-Warning: <server>: apache set sender to @ using -f

I am using the functions that was mentioned in the previous post. I am so confused, why is it doing this? I have scripts that run in 20 different places and they seem to be setting the sender to @ yet when I test each of my scripts, they work perfectly. Can anyone help me out?

linuxboy69 · 06-22-2004, 09:26 AM

I figured out what the problem was. We were using the mime class that comes with pear and it has troubles getting the sender address if you put a domain name with the tld in the "From_Name" such as From Name = mydomain.com staff.