On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:46:49 -0500, Andrew Cohill cohill@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