[ZendTo] Re: Revisiting the Return-Path change from Sept. 2010 archive

Jules Jules at Zend.To
Wed May 18 21:52:28 BST 2011


Can it not be done by adding a "Reply-To" header to the outgoing emails?

On 18/05/2011 16:36, Craig Chambers wrote:
> Jules,
>
> I have not found any other way besides editing the php.ini file :(
>
> I am definitely not a code guru but I was wondering if the install script could prompt the installer for a return-path email address. Depending on how aggressive you wanted to be with the assumption that the return-path domain is the same, you could also pre-populate that email address and domain suffix in various places in the preferences file during installation as well.
>
> - Craig
>
> On May 17, 2011, at 1:40 AM, Jules<Jules at zend.to>  wrote:
>
>> Is there *any* way of achieving the same effect without having to
>> manually edit php.ini? Currently I have scripted all the changes to that
>> file, which makes it much easier to install.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jules.
>>
>> On 17/05/2011 08:23, Craig Chambers wrote:
>>> I know this is an old topic but I wanted to follow-up because I was
>>> running into the same issue and have found a solution that appears to
>>> work for me on Ubuntu 10.10.
>>>
>>> To summarize the problem, when ZendTo sends an automated message the
>>> Return-Path becomes www-data at domain.com instead of the email address
>>> you specified in the ZendTo configuration. According to what I
>>> gathered from the thread, sendmail overrides any changes to the
>>> configuration of NSSDropbox.php. I am not sure if this is a valid fix
>>> for most people but I was able to fix the problem by adding the
>>> following to the bottom of my PHP.ini file:
>>>
>>> sendmail_path =/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i –f user at domain.com
>>> (substituting your email address of course)
>>>
>>> This still mens you have to manually modify a file, but at least you
>>> are not digging around your sendmail configuration files. As usual,
>>> your results may differ but I wanted to add this to the discussion in
>>> case it is useful for someone else.
>>>
>> Jules
>>
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