Email comes from nobody@domain.com

[Silver_2000]

In Vb there is a setting -f to use a feature that prevents the email from coming from nobody..

Is there a similar feature in classifieds ??

Thanks in advance

Doug

[daxter]

Yes, but for some reason it's called Administrator Email Address (In Global Options).
It should have been called Outgoing address or something similar.

[Silver_2000]

The admin email address is filled out, and the email shows to be coming from that admin, YET the header still shows the email as coming from the UNIX USER nobody@servername.hostname.com and that is causing emails to be rejected

Doug

In Vbulletin there is a -f setting that fixes this

Enable "-f" Parameter
Some sendmail servers may require the "-f" parameter to be sent with email calls from PHP. If you are having problems with users not receiving email, try enabling this option. In all likelihood, your problem will not be caused by this setting.

[Chuck S]

There is not an -f feature in classifieds but we can gladly look at adding one in a future version

[Mannie_F]

This is exactly my problem in photopost. Can i set a -f there to fix it and if so in what file and what line ?

[Chuck S]

There is that feature in classifieds now as this is an old thread

Admin => Admin Options => Enable ''-f'' Parameter?<br />Some sendmail servers require the ''-f'' parameter to be sent with email calls. If you have problems with users not receiving email, try enabling this.

[Mannie_F]

Sorry chuck, might have replied in the wrong section, this came up in the search. I am talking about my photopost 7

[Chuck S]

Ah well you would have to modify all your mail strings in photopost because there is no parameter in photopost pro like that

example in photopost you have this in your various scripts like this

Content visible to verified customers only.

You would say add the part in bold

However with the -f parameter I tend to think you should be getting no email sent but anyway try that

[Mannie_F]

i did that, but still the same mail comes in. In the screenshot attached i made the name black cause i don't want people to see that

[Chuck S]

Are you sure your admin email is filled out?

I mean our script clearly fills in the sender email we use the admin email.

If you have tried without the -f parameter and even with the -f parameter then you may want to contact your host.

Also realize in Pro you have mail strings in most the files so altering all the mail strings you will need to do. If your just trying to test if adding the -f parameter helps then concentrating on doing it to one specific mail string is fine just make sure you modify the right file for the mail string your dealing with.

[Mannie_F]

Yes i have filled my admin mail, that is what you see in the screenshot, the sender field is what i don't like. I had searched all the scripts for that code you gave and replaced that. So not sure there is anything else i can do. My host nags about using smtp wich works fine with smf and coppermine, but there is no smtp in photopost.

[Chuck S]

well I am sure the issue comes from your hosts php setup.

I mean we use a very simple PHP mail string in our program no SMTP currently

Now your host may need you to define an SMTP email default address in php setup maybe.

As the sample line I posted shows the php mail string itself whether you use an -f parameter or not clearly has $email_from defined.

Basically the -f parameter just adds an additional declaration of the defined sender email address.

[Mannie_F]

yes, i will go nag my host about this again. and if not i will have to do with this for a year and change host then if they cannot say anything other then use smtp . So consider this here done and now it is up to the host

[Chuck S]

enjoy whats left of the weekend

[Mannie_F]

Thanks, weekend is over. The host answered what i expected, so will save up to move the site over to godaddy in 2 months.

[Chuck S]

if you prefer good hosting that puts you on a vds where you have total control over your space then westhost.com is one to check out.

[Mannie_F]

They don't have an unlimited plan. As i am also planning to make video tutorials for vue etc.. space will go up quick. Thanks anyway for pointing me out to that host

[Chuck S]

You think godaddy is unlimited? You really need to read the fine print. Godaddy is maybe a step up from ipowerweb or powweb or yahoo. I never recomment anyone to go there. All there base packages have safe mode on.

Here is Godaddy's VDS plan which compares to the host I showed you

Virtual Dedicated Server - Highly Configurable Plans Low Prices

Its not even close. Godaddy's top vds package is 115.00 a month and you only get 50GB of diskspace. Westhost gives you double the diskspace.

Thats why I prefer to show people real hosts

Premium Web Hosting Package Comparison - WestHost

Here is an example if your site is gonna use more than 100GB of diskspace and 2000GB of bandwidth which it will not I think then you deserve to be on a dedicated server and then of course your going to be paying 100+ a month anywhere.

See your talking about godaddy's lets shove a thousand sites on one server and hope it runs fine plan. They can say its unlimited but its not. Any site on that server can bring down the whole server its SHARED HOSTING not a VDS. Shared hosting if you can afford it is not the way to go. To get that 15.00 a month price your going to have to lock into that 3 year contract with godaddy which means putting out $540.00

[Mannie_F]

i didn't know that, learned something again

[Chuck S]

yeah not a fan of shared hosting. If you can afford it a VDS plan is the best way to go.