[imp] mail from "nobody"

[Donald MacDougall]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 01:26:50PM -0400, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> 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.

I had a problem that went somewhat along these lines for a while and
eventually found that it was because nobody needed to be added to the
trusted users in exim.conf.

trusted_users = mail:nobody

Don MacDougall