Weird problem when sending email from a PHP form.

[edge]

I've got this online registration for that will send a confirmation email back to the user.
The problem is that when the email is send from the form it will show "www-data@host.domainname.tld"
Problem with this is that there is no SPF record for this, causing some registrations not to get to the user (hotmail does not accept mail when SPF is wrong)

Now my HOSTNAME is host.domainname.tld, so I thought by adding host.domainname.tld to the existing SPF record for domainname.tld would fix it.
Wrong.. The problem is still their.

The problem is the from: www-data@host.domainname.tld
I think if it would read www-data@domainname.tld that all is okay!

I've had a look at PHP.ini, but see nothing where I can set this.

Anyone here who might know how to fix this problem?

This is the data from the: mail.info file
(note that I have changed some things for privacy reasons)
I have changed the domainname.tld, the email_address, an_email_address and the IP: 11.22.33.44


When sending from the PHP form:

Sep 5 11:21:16 host postfix/pickup[11837]: DB072125000F: uid=33 from=<www-data>
Sep 5 11:21:16 host postfix/cleanup[14600]: DB072125000F: message-id=<20060905092116.DB072125000F@domainname.tld>
Sep 5 11:21:16 host postfix/qmgr[11838]: DB072125000F: from=<www-data@host.domainname.tld>, size=522, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Sep 5 11:21:18 host postfix/smtp[14602]: DB072125000F: to=<email_address@gmail.com>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[72.14.205.27], delay=2, status=sent (250 2
Sep 5 11:21:18 host postfix/qmgr[11838]: DB072125000F: removed

When sending with SMTP (and all is ok!):

Sep 5 11:24:21 host postfix/smtpd[15452]: connect from a11-22-33-44.adsl.cistron.nl[11.22.33.44]
Sep 5 11:24:21 host postfix/smtpd[15452]: 2E60B125000F: client=a11-22-33-44.adsl.cistron.nl[11.22.33.44], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=web4_me
Sep 5 11:24:21 host postfix/cleanup[15454]: 2E60B125000F: message-id=<004f01c6d0cd$46731ca0$0400000a@xeon2>
Sep 5 11:24:21 host postfix/qmgr[11838]: 2E60B125000F: from=<me@an_email_address>, size=685, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Sep 5 11:24:21 host postfix/smtpd[15452]: disconnect from a11-22-33-44.adsl.cistron.nl[11.22.33.44]
Sep 5 11:24:22 host postfix/smtp[15455]: 2E60B125000F: to=<email_address@gmail.com>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[72.14.205.27], delay=1, status=sent (250 2
Sep 5 11:24:22 host postfix/qmgr[11838]: 2E60B125000F: removed

[sjau]

Well, you could set a sender in the PHP form.

[Ben]

Can you post the php code?

What you additianlly can do is to set the -f parameter for sendmail in the php.ini to fix set the from address, wich is a real from address and no x-from address...

[edge]

Originally Posted by Ben

Can you post the php code?

What you additianlly can do is to set the -f parameter for sendmail in the php.ini to fix set the from address, wich is a real from address and no x-from address...

This is part of the password recover code:

PHP Code:

if($_REQUEST['recover'])
{
    STemplate::assign('receiver_name', $rs->fields['username']);
    STemplate::assign('receiver_fname', $rs->fields['fname']);
    STemplate::assign('receiver_lname', $rs->fields['lname']);
    STemplate::assign('password', $rs->fields['pwd']);
    
    $rs = $conn->execute("select * from emailinfo where email_id='recover_password'");
    $subj = $rs->fields['email_subject'];
    $email_path = $rs->fields['email_path'];
    $body = STemplate::fetch($email_path);
    @mailing($_REQUEST['email'], $config['site_name'], $config['admin_email'], $subj, $body);
    
    $msg = "An email is sent to your email address. Plese check it now.";
    
    header("Location: recoverpass.php?msg=$msg");
} 


This is how the main mail function looks:

PHP Code:

//MAIL FUNCTIION
function mailing($to,$name,$from,$subj,$body,$bcc="") 
{
    global $SERVER_NAME;
    $subj=nl2br($subj);
    $body=nl2br($body);
    $recipient = $to;
    if($bcc!="") $headers = "Bcc: " . $bcc."\n";
    $headers .= "From: " . $from . "\n";
    //$headers .= "X-Sender: <" . "$to" . ">\n";
    //$headers .= "Return-Path: <" . "$to" . ">\n";
    //$headers .= "Error-To: <" . "$to" . ">\n";
    $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html\n";
    mail("$recipient","$subj","$body","$headers");
} 


and a small part of the signup form

PHP Code:

                    {
                            $expired_time = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime("+".$rs->fields['trial_period']." day"));
                    
                            $sql = "update subscriber set
                                    pack_id=$_REQUEST[pack_id],
                                    subscribe_time='".date("Y-m-d H:i:s")."',
                                    expired_time='$expired_time'
                                    where UID = $userid";
                            $conn->execute($sql);
                            
                            SESSION_REGISTER("UID");            $_SESSION[UID]=$userid;
                            SESSION_REGISTER("EMAIL");            $_SESSION[EMAIL]="$_REQUEST[email]";
                            SESSION_REGISTER("USERNAME");        $_SESSION[USERNAME]="$_REQUEST[username]";
                            SESSION_REGISTER("EMAILVERIFIED");    $_SESSION[EMAILVERIFIED]="no";
                            ####################### Email                
                            $ran=time().rand(1,99999999);
                            $sql="update verify as v, signup as s set
                                            v.vcode='$ran',
                                            s.emailverified='no' WHERE v.UID=s.UID and v.UID='$userid'";
                            $conn->execute($sql);
                            STemplate::assign('vcode',$ran);

                            $to=$_SESSION[EMAIL];
                            $name=$config['site_name'];
                            $from=$config['admin_email'];
                            $rs = $conn->execute("select * from emailinfo where email_id='verify_email'");
                            $subj = $rs->fields['email_subject'];
                            $email_path = $rs->fields['email_path'];
                            
                            $mailbody=STemplate::fetch($email_path);
                            mailing($to,$name,$from,$subj,$mailbody);
                            $msg = "A verification email is sent to your address. Please check your email.";
                            ##################### end Email SECTION 

                            if($_REQUEST['next']!="")$page=$_REQUEST['next'].".php";else $page="invite_signup.php";
                            if($_REQUEST['add']!="")$add=base64_decode($add);
                                    header("Location:$config[baseurl]/$page?$add");exit;
                    } 


Not sure if this is all what is needed to fix the problem (it's not my code)

[Ben]

Well I splitted my lines of the header with \r\n instead of only \n but I'm note sure if there was a change or not...

So my header var looks e.g. sth like this, if I don't use Pear's Mail class.

PHP Code:

$header = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .= "From: emai@domain.tld <emai@domain.tld>\r\n"; 


[edge]

Thanks for the input, but I found the problem!

In the mail function I had to replace: mail("$recipient","$subj","$body","$headers"); with mail("$recipient","$subj","$body","$headers","-f$from");

(note the -f and $from)

All is working fine now..