how to avoid 'nobody'

[Peter Afonin]

Hello,

I installed osCommerce on Apache server. By default it sends out e-mails
from the account 'nobody'. However, this option is turned off by the hosting
provider. Is there a way to make it send mail from a real account? Is there
a scripting solution for it (some PHP script)?

I would appreciate your advice.

Thank you,

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Peter Afonin

[Geoff Muldoon]

pe***@gudzon.net says...

I installed osCommerce on Apache server. By default it sends out e-mails
from the account 'nobody'. However, this option is turned off by the hosting
provider. Is there a way to make it send mail from a real account? Is there
a scripting solution for it (some PHP script)?

To send an email from PHP where the sender appears as
no*******@somewhere.com:

$param="-fno*******@somewhere.com";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $header, $param);

Geoff M

[Peter Afonin]

Thank you, Geoff, I'll try this.

Peter

"Geoff Muldoon" <gm******@nospam.scu.edu.au> wrote in message
news:MP************************@news.x-privat.org...

pe***@gudzon.net says...

I installed osCommerce on Apache server. By default it sends out e-mails
from the account 'nobody'. However, this option is turned off by the hosting provider. Is there a way to make it send mail from a real account? Is there a scripting solution for it (some PHP script)?

To send an email from PHP where the sender appears as
no*******@somewhere.com:

$param="-fno*******@somewhere.com";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $header, $param);

Geoff M

[Good Man]

"Peter Afonin" <pe***@gudzon.net> wrote in
news:11*************@corp.supernews.com:

Hello,

I installed osCommerce on Apache server. By default it sends out
e-mails from the account 'nobody'. However, this option is turned off
by the hosting provider. Is there a way to make it send mail from a
real account? Is there a scripting solution for it (some PHP script)?

I use Manual Lemos' MIME e-mail message class to send emails; just download
the classes and try a test, its VERY simple to use. You can send mail via
SMTP authentication using any server you want, and the emails do a great
job of actually getting through to recipients without being flagged as
junk.

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/9.html

[jorj]

Geoff Muldoon wrote:

pe***@gudzon.net says...

I installed osCommerce on Apache server. By default it sends out e-mails
from the account 'nobody'. However, this option is turned off by the hosting
provider. Is there a way to make it send mail from a real account? Is there
a scripting solution for it (some PHP script)?

To send an email from PHP where the sender appears as
no*******@somewhere.com:

$param="-fno*******@somewhere.com";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $header, $param);

Geoff M

You can try to replace php's ini setting for 'from_email' before sending
the email , with ini_set() , and put it back after. Be aware that some
hosts won't allow sending emails other than a valid 'from' email

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