By larsmw on

The sending e-mail from my drupal installation is wrong so it gets (rightliy) rejected by my exim4 server.

When i register a new user the email that should get to the new user gets the sending adress 'myapacheuser@empty' and since this is not a valid adress it gets rejected by Exim4.

I have tried setting the sending emailadress in settings.php like this :

ini_set('sendmail_from', 'lars@lfweb.dk');

But it does not change the adress. Likewise under /admin/settings/general my email is set propperly.

What am I getting wrong??? :-)

drupal version : 6.19
Mysql 5.x

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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gpk commented

Sounds like a "feature" of your Apache/PHP installation. Seems that the from address that Drupal tries to set (the one you define in admin/settings...) is being overwritten somewhere. Suggest you speak to your host or try smtp module.

[update] another common problem is that the return-path gets set to a generic server address... this can be fixed using return path module, but probably won't help you in this situation.

gpk
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larsmw commented

hmm.. yes it could seem like you are right! :-s .... Im hosting on my own server so happy hunting to me! :-)

/Lars Nielsen

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larsmw commented

I solved it now temporarily by "hacking" exim to change the sender address. But it would be nice to be able to easily change the sending address...

/Lars Nielsen