'Nobody' disallowed from sending email with PHP

[francescomoi@usa.com]

Hi.

My host decided to disallow mails from 'nobody' ('nobody' is the user
of PHP+Apache) due to spam problems.

I use the PHP mail function to send out a confirmation email for new
users, and it doesn't work. If I access shell with my user+passwd, I
can execute PHP
scripts ok and emails are delivered.

Any similar problem? Thx.

[Michael Vilain]

Re: 'Nobody' disallowed from sending email with PHP

In article <1126740968.562 979.166890@g14g 2000cwa.googleg roups.com>,
francescomoi@us a.com wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi.
>
> My host decided to disallow mails from 'nobody' ('nobody' is the user
> of PHP+Apache) due to spam problems.
>
> I use the PHP mail function to send out a confirmation email for new
> users, and it doesn't work. If I access shell with my user+passwd, I
> can execute PHP
> scripts ok and emails are delivered.
>
> Any similar problem? Thx.[/color]

Switch to perl and call it via CGI. The mail functions you can get from
CPAN are more robust and you have more control. If you run the script
using CGIwrap (google for it), you can run as yourself on the ISP's
shared server. Of course, if your ISP won't setup CGIwrap for you, I'd
look for another ISP...

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[Jason Garber]

Re: 'Nobody' disallowed from sending email with PHP

Proposed solution:

Create a MySQL table to queue the emails. Then write a PHP script that
will check the queue, and send any emails in it (and then delete them).

Add a line to your crontab to call this script every minute, and you
should be set.

[Smitro]

Re: 'Nobody' disallowed from sending email with PHP

Can't you just change the from address and make it your own?

It's part of the mail() function.

[Gary L. Burnore]

Re: 'Nobody' disallowed from sending email with PHP

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:48:20 -0700, Michael Vilain
<vilain@spamcop .net> wrote:
[color=blue]
>In article <1126740968.562 979.166890@g14g 2000cwa.googleg roups.com>,
> francescomoi@us a.com wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Hi.
>>
>> My host decided to disallow mails from 'nobody' ('nobody' is the user
>> of PHP+Apache) due to spam problems.
>>
>> I use the PHP mail function to send out a confirmation email for new
>> users, and it doesn't work. If I access shell with my user+passwd, I
>> can execute PHP
>> scripts ok and emails are delivered.
>>
>> Any similar problem? Thx.[/color]
>
>Switch to perl and call it via CGI.[/color]

Fortunately, perl wouldn't over-ride the user and group so if it
doesn't work for php it won't work for perl.
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[Michael Vilain]

Re: 'Nobody' disallowed from sending email with PHP

In article <dgae7f$p3f$1@p ookiehead.datab asix.com>,
Gary L. Burnore <gburnore@datab asix.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:48:20 -0700, Michael Vilain
> <vilain@spamcop .net> wrote:
>[color=green]
> >In article <1126740968.562 979.166890@g14g 2000cwa.googleg roups.com>,
> > francescomoi@us a.com wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> My host decided to disallow mails from 'nobody' ('nobody' is the user
> >> of PHP+Apache) due to spam problems.
> >>
> >> I use the PHP mail function to send out a confirmation email for new
> >> users, and it doesn't work. If I access shell with my user+passwd, I
> >> can execute PHP
> >> scripts ok and emails are delivered.
> >>
> >> Any similar problem? Thx.[/color]
> >
> >Switch to perl and call it via CGI.[/color]
>
> Fortunately, perl wouldn't over-ride the user and group so if it
> doesn't work for php it won't work for perl.[/color]

Actually, if you read the _rest_ of my post where I recommended CGIwrap,
it does. Check out

http://cgiwrap.sourceforge.net/

for more details. Now that wasn't hard, was it?

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[Gary L. Burnore]

Re: 'Nobody' disallowed from sending email with PHP

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:54:31 -0700, Michael Vilain
<vilain@spamcop .net> wrote:
[color=blue]
>In article <dgae7f$p3f$1@p ookiehead.datab asix.com>,
> Gary L. Burnore <gburnore@datab asix.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:48:20 -0700, Michael Vilain
>> <vilain@spamcop .net> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>> >In article <1126740968.562 979.166890@g14g 2000cwa.googleg roups.com>,
>> > francescomoi@us a.com wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi.
>> >>
>> >> My host decided to disallow mails from 'nobody' ('nobody' is the user
>> >> of PHP+Apache) due to spam problems.
>> >>
>> >> I use the PHP mail function to send out a confirmation email for new
>> >> users, and it doesn't work. If I access shell with my user+passwd, I
>> >> can execute PHP
>> >> scripts ok and emails are delivered.
>> >>
>> >> Any similar problem? Thx.
>> >
>> >Switch to perl and call it via CGI.[/color]
>>
>> Fortunately, perl wouldn't over-ride the user and group so if it
>> doesn't work for php it won't work for perl.[/color]
>
>Actually, if you read the _rest_ of my post where I recommended CGIwrap,
>it does.[/color]

He's not talking about permissions. He's talking about the ID.
Someone else gave the correct answer: Use a different ID.
[color=blue]
> Check out
>
>http://cgiwrap.sourceforge.net/
>
>for more details. Now that wasn't hard, was it?[/color]

Perhaps you misread his post? Naw, that couldn't be, could it?


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