Posted by Manuel Lemos on 07/11/05 04:31

Hello,

on 07/09/2005 11:58 AM Daniel Loose said the following:
> a friend was so kind to host my php scripts. but when they use
> phpmailer (or other PHP mail facilities) to email e.g. to an invalid
> address, the
> returning error message appears in *my friend's email inbox*
> (recipient - or sender? - is "wwwrun" of my friend's machine). I
> guess you understand which problem I mean. To fix the problem, I would
> like to understand what is going on here - in the mail header, i did
> set replyto, x-sender and from to *my* email address, but it doesnt
> help. so where must I change what to free my kind friend from this
> "spam"?
>
> Someone was so kind to post a solution for mail() recently. But now I
> have to use PHPMailer, but in its docu I couldn't find how to solve
> the problem...

You need to set the return path address. I don't know how you can do it
with PHPMailer, but if you use the MIMEMessage class you can do it
simply by setting the Return-Path: header. That classes comes with many
examples and documentation to show that:

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage


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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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