[imp] mail from "nobody"

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:26:50 -0400


Quoting Bob Reven <bob.reven@unix1.trinity.ox.ac.uk>:

> i am using IMP 2.2.4 on an intel redhat linux 6.2 system with exim
> 3.22
> 
> all emails sent by IMP have a return-path of nobody@unix1 eg,
> 
> Return-path: <nobody@unix1.trinity.ox.ac.uk>
> 
> and a 'sender' field of nobody also:
> 
> Sender: Nobody <nobody@unix1.trinity.ox.ac.uk>

Either exim is ignoring the -f flag to set the sender, or you have the path to 
the sendmail wrapper wrong and IMP is falling back on php's mail() function, 
which can't set the envelope sender.

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
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