[SNewman]

Hey!

So in a nutshell, I've created a homemade mailing list making use of mail piping, several classes from phpclasses.org, and some original code. Any e-mails sent to a specified address will be sent out with attachments to a specified list of recipients.

What I'd like is for the From field in the message that is sent out to reflect the original sender of the message. When I enable debugging on my script and run the script via a browser, it displays the correct from name and e-mail address (for example "Newman, Scott <snewman@lhup.edu>"). However, when debugging is disabled and a live test is run, the from field reads something like "Newman@chi01.genericservers.com". I have a feeling this is caused by the mail pipe (the new sender becomes the server rather than the original sender). Is there any way to fix this?

Also, as you can see by the included files, I have two separate files for two separate e-mail addresses. If at all possible, I'd like to just have one file that I can pipe both addresses to. Not critical, but it would be nice. Any way this can be done?

Thanks in advance for all your help. Hope this all made sense!

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For privacy reasons, both recipient lists have been cleared. Please use your own e-mail address for testing.

[SNewman]

Anyone have any ideas?

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After further testing, I've determined that the script does in fact grab the correct From: name and e-mail address, and that the problem is coming from the actual mailer class...most likely in the setTo function. I just can't figure it out...

Oh yeah. I also only encounter the problem with the From address when sending mail from Outlook Web Access. When sending mail from Windows Mail, the From name and address shows correctly.

[MMJ]

I skimmed your posts so your problem could be something completely different but you might want to look at sendmail's -f switch option.

[SNewman]

Well, after much digging I've discovered the problem. My particular host uses exim as the MTA, and apparently there is a configuration option "local_from_check" which will overwrite any From e-mail address you specify if it can not be verified and it is not configured in the "trusted_users" option, obviously to combat spam. Hopefully my host is able to disable the check on just my account or there is some other work around for this.