Posted by Gary L. Burnore on 09/15/05 14:20

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:54:31 -0700, Michael Vilain
<vilain@spamcop.net> wrote:

>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.

He's not talking about permissions. He's talking about the ID.
Someone else gave the correct answer: Use a different ID.

> Check out
>
>http://cgiwrap.sourceforge.net/
>
>for more details. Now that wasn't hard, was it?

Perhaps you misread his post? Naw, that couldn't be, could it?


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