[support] Hosting services shuts off mail from user nobody

[Pat Collins]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:46:49 -0500, Andrew Cohill <cohill at designnine.com> wrote :

> I am managing several Drupal sites, and the hosting service has shut  
> off email from 'nobody' as a security risk.
> 
> This breaks registration, password resets, notify, contact, and any  
> other feature that sends email.
> 
> There are a variety of confusing and possibly conflicting  
> recommendations on the Drupal site about this problem.  Most involve  
> multi-step patches to each site, which becomes very difficult if you  
> are managing multiple sites.
> 
> Is the an "approved" way to deal with this problem?
>

If you are hosted on Linux/BSD and your site is using the sendmail binary or
equilivent on the server to send mail you can use the additional parameters
option to use the sendmail -f option to force your envelope sender to
something other than the web-server user.   

Pat