Mail From Address is wrong

[frostiecuk]

When someone subscribes to my mail list, they receive an email no problem. But the FROM address contains details of my host AS WELL as the email I have specified;
FROM: nobody@my.host.details.co.uk; on behalf of; My Name[noreply@mydomain.co.uk]

My host has said that I need to change something like :

mail($to, $subject, $message, $header)

to:

mail($to, $subject, $message, $header, "-f user@domain.com")

where user@domain.com is the address I want replies and bounced e-mail to go to - so that will be bounce@mydomain.co.uk

Question is, where do I make these changes? I have searched loads of files to try to find where I need to make the change, but have so far found nothing.

Any ideas?

[duncan]

The address is set as the message envelope in config.php
$bounce_mailbox_user is the variable you are after

[jessiej]

the "from" name is unfriendly, and I want to replace it with "info@mydomain.com". I looked in config.php and $bounce_mailbox_user = is set correctly...

is this information located anywhere else?

[chrisk]

There's a line close to the beginning of the config.php file:

#$message_envelope = 'listbounces@yourdomain';

Put the address you want in there, and uncomment it.

It worked for me.

[irsup]

Dear friends

I have same problem,

my envelope address in config is true, but when I checked in sent email, I saw the envelope is noboday[at]myhostname[dot]net

please help me urgently

[kiblinger]

Using phplist 2.10.4

Note: I am using "AT" for @ and "DOT" for .
The system won't let me post otherwise.

I am having the same problem:

The Configure page has:
"From email address for system messages:
a-working-address AT mydomain DOT com"

config.php has:

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$message_envelope = 'a-working-address AT mydomain DOT com';
$bounce_mailbox_user = 'a-working-address AT mydomain DOT com';
define('USE_ADMIN_DETAILS_FOR_MESSAGES',0);


When I send a message I insert:
"a-working-address AT mydomain DOT com" in the From Line.

But email messages still have a from address of:
"my-username AT some DOT server DOT at DOT my DOT host DOT com"

In case it matters, phpinfo() says, among other things: '--with-imap=shared,/usr' '--with-imap-ssl'

PHP Version 4.4.1

Safe mode is off.

None of the Bounce stuff works either. I don't know if these two issues are related.

If anyone can help I would appreciate it.

[jasonfranz]

I think I'm having similar issues with an envelope problem. When I setup the config file with the correct envelope settings I certainly get a TON of bounces from my lists, but these are all unroutable domain bounces from addresses which I know for a fact to be valid. When I do not use the envelope feature (re-comment it in config) this goes away, as do ALL bounces.

Questions:

1. Why would activating the Envelope cause all messages to bounce?

2. When not using the envelope settings, where are any bounces going? (i'm sure some should be bouncing..)

Would love to get this working properly without worries of folks not getting our newsletters.

Thanks for any help.

[kiblinger]

Hello me. Here is my answer to my question that took FOREVER TO FIGURE OUT:

config.php

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define("PHPMAILERHOST",'');

changed to

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define("PHPMAILERHOST",'smtpDOTmydomainDOTcom');

Yay.

[muppet]

going back to the original post, I have also been told this, but the hosting company will not help any more than that.

I've posted elsewhere on the 'from' email, a couple of solutions have been suggested, but nothing worked.

Anyone else got a bright idea for us?

[duncan]

Your mailserver needs to be happy with you changing or arbitrarily setting the from address. If its not it will just leave what it thinks your systems valid email to be. Some by default will not let you change it thus you don't get to change it - check with your ISP or if you have commandline access use a mail command to send something with a different from address and see if it works.
Using SMTP will usually get around this as it doesn't validate in that way.

With respect to bounces - you won't get any if you don't have your envelope and bounce processing setup. So they are going to the ether so to speak (still bouncing though)

Cheers Duncan