php email script www-data
 

Thanks for a great product, ispconfig is making site management much easer.

I am writing a php script that sends an email to the user who fills in a form, and a copy of the email to the sales department of the site. When the out ward bound email arrives the Recipient/From looks like www-data@mail.myserver.mydomain.com when it should look like sales@mydomain.com and the email that should go to the sales department never arrives.

I have setup the site with two Co-Domains both with DNS: and DNS MX: ticked

ip_address www mydomain.com
ip_address mydomain.com

I have set up two users
user1 user1@mydomain.com
user2 sales@mydomain.com

when I view the mail source of the test email the arrives I see (ip addresses changed to protect the innocent).

From www-data@mail.myserver.mydomain.com Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:51 -0400
Received: from kumquat.safe-mail.net ([0.0.0.])
by tamar.safe-mail.net with smlocal (smtas 1.2);
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:01:21 -0400
DomainKey-Status: not-signed (some+real)
X-SMTests: g00nmp0i0b0aR00u
Received: from 0.0.0.0.dynamic.rev.aanet.com.au ([0.0.0.0] helo=mail.myserver.mydomain.com)
by kumquat.safe-mail.net with esmtp (TLSv1/SSLv3:AES256-SHA:256) (smtpd 1.0)
id N1K-PWiIWDsmZX
for myaccount@safe-mail.net; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:51 -0400
Received-SPF: no-spf
Received: by mail.myserver.mydomain.com (Postfix, from userid 33)
id 15929186C0; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:01:02 +0800 (WST)
To: myaccount@Safe-mail.net
Subject: Your Quote Request
MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

To: myaccount@Safe-mail.net

From: sales@mydomain.com

Cc:

Message-Id: <20080923040102.15929186C0@mail.myserver.mydomain. com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:01:02 +0800 (WST)

It's more about how you send your e-mail via php. If you e.g. just use mail() with out any special parameters to set the From, the sender will look like the user sending the e-mail, which in this case is your apache, running as www-data.
To avoid this, either set the X-From or directly use the pear mail class and directly send it via smtp over the appropriate mailbox.

email address remapping?
 

Thanks for your reply Ben.
Your response solved the www-data problem.

However the problem with the internal emails (emails sent to other mail boxes on the same server) persists. Eg no email arrives. This happens whether you send a mail form squirrelmail or a php page, and the error messages are the same.

Having a look at the mail.log file the lost mail is trying to go to web1_username@mail.hostserver.hostdomain.com.

The host server’s fqdn is hostserver.hostdomain.com the site fqun is mydomain.com

Any ideas how to fix this problem.

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# ISPConfig virtusertable Configuration File
# Version 1.0
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username@www.otherdomain.com web1_username
web1_username@www.otherdomain.com web1_username
username@otherdomain.com web1_username
web1_username@otherdomain.com web1_username
franchising@www.mydomain.com web2_username
links@www.mydomain.com web2_username
username@www.mydomain.com web2_username
web2_username@www.mydomain.com web2_username
franchising@mydomain.com web2_username
links@mydomain.com web2_username
username@mydomain.com web2_username
web2_username@mydomain.com web2_username
sales@www.mydomain.com web2_sales
web2_sales@www.mydomain.com web2_sales
sales@mydomain.com web2_sales
web2_sales@mydomain.com web2_sales

mail.log

Sep 28 17:13:23 hostserver postfix/smtpd[9057]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Sep 28 17:13:23 hostserver postfix/smtpd[9057]: C592F183AB: client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Sep 28 17:13:23 hostserver postfix/cleanup[9060]: C592F183AB: message-id=<3978.192.168.0.2.1222593203.squirrel@hostserve r.hostdomain.com>
Sep 28 17:13:23 hostserver postfix/qmgr[7164]: C592F183AB: from=<username@mydomain.com>, size=757, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Sep 28 17:13:23 hostserver imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Sep 28 17:13:23 hostserver postfix/smtpd[9057]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Sep 28 17:13:23 hostserver postfix/smtp[9061]: C592F183AB: to=<web1_username@mail.hostserver.hostdomain.com>, orig_to=<username@otherdomain.com>, relay=none, delay=0.17, delays=0.08/0.09/0.01/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mail.hostserver.hostdomain.com type=AAAA: Host not found)
Sep 28 17:13:23 hostserver postfix/cleanup[9060]: F10DE186C0: message-id=<20080928091323.F10DE186C0@hostserver.hostdomai n.com>
Sep 28 17:13:24 hostserver postfix/qmgr[7164]: F10DE186C0: from=<>, size=2943, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Sep 28 17:13:24 hostserver postfix/bounce[9064]: C592F183AB: sender non-delivery notification: F10DE186C0
Sep 28 17:13:24 hostserver postfix/qmgr[7164]: C592F183AB: removed
Sep 28 17:13:24 hostserver postfix/smtp[9061]: F10DE186C0: to=<web2_username@mail.hostserver.hostdomain.com>, orig_to=<username@mydomain.com>, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0.01/0/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=mail.hostserver.hostdomain.com type=AAAA: Host not found)
Sep 28 17:13:24 hostserver postfix/qmgr[7164]: F10DE186C0: removed
Sep 28 17:13:24 hostserver imapd: LOGIN, user=web2_username, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], port=[57396], protocol=IMAP
Sep 28 17:13:24 hostserver imapd: LOGOUT, user=web2_username, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], headers=0, body=0, rcvd=647, sent=204, time=0
Sep 28 17:13:24 hostserver imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Sep 28 17:13:24 hostserver imapd: LOGIN, user=web2_username, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], port=[57397], protocol=IMAP
Sep 28 17:13:24 hostserver imapd: LOGOUT, user=web2_username, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], headers=524, body=0, rcvd=232, sent=2098, time=0

problrm solved
 

Hi guys,
After further investigation I descovered that I had entered a mistake during the setup.
I had put mail.hostserver.hostdomain.com insted of hostserver.hostdomain.com in etc/mailname , now all is working fine.

thanks for your help

PS can you please find a way to encourage users to report how they solved there problems so that we can all benefit.