Posted by Michael Vilain on 09/15/05 02:48

In article <1126740968.562979.166890@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
francescomoi@usa.com wrote:

> Hi.
>
> My host decided to disallow mails from 'nobody' ('nobody' is the user
> of PHP+Apache) due to spam problems.
>
> I use the PHP mail function to send out a confirmation email for new
> users, and it doesn't work. If I access shell with my user+passwd, I
> can execute PHP
> scripts ok and emails are delivered.
>
> Any similar problem? Thx.

Switch to perl and call it via CGI. The mail functions you can get from
CPAN are more robust and you have more control. If you run the script
using CGIwrap (google for it), you can run as yourself on the ISP's
shared server. Of course, if your ISP won't setup CGIwrap for you, I'd
look for another ISP...

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