Creating new account following message comes up to requester:

Warning: mail(): Policy restriction in effect. The fifth parameter is disabled on this system in DefaultMailSystem->mail() (line 77 of /customers/X.x/X.x/httpd.www/modules/system/system.mail.inc).
* Warning: mail(): Policy restriction in effect. The fifth parameter is disabled on this system in DefaultMailSystem->mail() (line 77 of /customers/X.x/X.x/httpd.www/modules/system/system.mail.inc).

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cord1’s picture

cord1 commented

Solution for me:
modules/system/system.mail.inc line 74
remove comma behind $mail_headers
line 76 comment out '-f ' . $message['Return-Path']

I get no more warnings.

berdir’s picture

berdir
Primary language German
Location Switzerland
commented

Do you know what kind of "policy" that is?

Is this is shared host?

Is there some sort of php security extension running? I never heard of such a feature in php itself, you can block functions, sure, but specific arguments of functions?

bfroehle’s picture

bfroehle commented

From http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

The additional_parameters parameter is disabled in safe_mode and the mail() function will expose a warning message and return FALSE when used.

From http://drupal.org/requirements

PHP needs the following configuration directives for Drupal to work (only directives that differ from the default php.ini-dist / php.ini-recommended):

  • safe_mode: off. Safe mode may interfere with file and image uploads.

Guess we should add a note that safe mode also messes up sending users mail.

MrMagoo’s picture

MrMagoo commented

chord1: Did you remove the comma at $mail_body,? and that line 76 your mention? What did you do? Dont understand what you wrote? Im getting the same information about safe mode when i created a new user

gyurma’s picture

gyurma commented

I have same problem using drupal commerce.
on my host in a small example php file the ini_get('safe_mode') returns false, and I really can send mail via mail() with 5 arguments, but the drupal commerce writes this policy warning.
I have no idea how the mail() function gets confused...
The native drupal mail function checks for this safe_mode stuff, and still gets this error.
Actually the mails seem to be sent OK.

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th_tushar commented
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