Bounced email

Any bounced email returns to [email protected] for all the hosted sites. How can I change it so it returns back to the originator?

In VBulletin I can do this by using SMTP for sending emails. The problem seems to be with those sites using the php mail function.

Using SMTP:

Code:

Return-Path: <[email protected]>

Using php mail:

Code:

Return-Path: <[email protected]>

 

If I do it from VBulletin I need to send the -f parameter to sendmail.

On the VBulletin diagnostic page it says

I can't see no errors in /var/log/mail*

Any ideas?

 

If I use the following code without the -f option:

Code:

<?php

// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

// Send
mail('[email protected]', 'My Subject', $message);

?>

The email is sent and the mail log outputs the following:

Code:

Jul  2 02:01:55 europa postfix/pickup[28530]: E7383B583C9: uid=30 from=<wwwrun>
Jul  2 02:01:55 europa postfix/cleanup[29251]: E7383B583C9: message-id=<[email protected]>
Jul  2 02:01:56 europa postfix/qmgr[25689]: E7383B583C9: from=<[email protected]>, size=345, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jul  2 02:01:57 europa postfix/smtp[29254]: E7383B583C9: to=<user@gmailcom>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.129.27]:25, delay=2, delays=0.14/0/1.4/0.4, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1183334517 g28si14191589fkg)
Jul  2 02:01:57 europa postfix/qmgr[25689]: E7383B583C9: removed

However, if I now attempt sending an email with the -f option:

Code:

<?php

// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";

// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);

$returnval = mail('[email protected]', 'the subject', 'the message', null,
'-f [email protected]');
?>

No email is sent and nothing gets written to any of the mail logs (messages,mail, mail.err, mail.info, mail.warn). The variable $returnval is empty.

 

That sent the email fine, but the return path is still [email protected]. It should be the sender. Even if I stick in Return-Path: [email protected] it still gets overwritten with the wwwrun one.

 

Fixed it. Seems you can't use the -f param with php safe mode