If it is indeed on a Windows server, check your php.ini file.
Look for the entry:
; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; for Win32 only
And put the e-mail address you'd like the SMTP server to see as the sender
there.
-Mike
At 10:59 PM 8/22/01 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi, this problem isn't really Windows specific...
>
>I have a client on one of my webservers who is causing me great
>headaches. He wrote php mail function that reads approx 17 000 e-mail
>addresses out of a mysql table, and then mails them all a standard
>newsletter.
>Firstly, the page bombs out ( no wonder really...) but before it does,
>it sends out as many mails as it can loop through in the 30s. I have
>checked the script, and he does add headers,; reply-to, return-path,
>from etc., yet, when the mail he sends starts to bounce, they all end up
>in the "root" account mailbox, as sendmail sees at as mail sent by users
>nobody@mydomain. For some reason, the Return-path header is ignored. I
>would really like to route these errors to his mailbox so he can handle
>the bouncers. Furthermore, concerning this problem of the bulk mail.
>I've had several people tell me that PHP is not the right way to send
>bulk mail, yet, I know of no other way to read addresses from a mysql
>table and send it as easily as with PHP. I was just wondering if there
>is another way of doing it with PHP so my server won't get bombarded
>with all these sendmail calls, ie, some way of pausing the sending
>process after every nth mail so sendmail can catch up. I've heard people
>talk about "sending the process to the background", but that sounds way
>too loose a term...
>Can someone here help me out?
>
>Thanks a lot.
>
>
>
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