Posted by Michael Vilain on 09/15/05 10:54

In article <dgae7f$p3f$1@pookiehead.databasix.com>,
Gary L. Burnore <gburnore@databasix.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:48:20 -0700, Michael Vilain
> <vilain@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> Fortunately, perl wouldn't over-ride the user and group so if it
> doesn't work for php it won't work for perl.

Actually, if you read the _rest_ of my post where I recommended CGIwrap,
it does. Check out

http://cgiwrap.sourceforge.net/

for more details. Now that wasn't hard, was it?

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