All email sent from 'nobody'

[dillo]

Hello,

This is the first big problem I ran into.

All my email is being sent from 'nobody'.
I asked my host about the option "Prevent the user 'nobody'
from sending out mail to remote addresses",
they say it's 'OFF' by default.

Return-path: <nobody@ my_server.com>
Envelope-to: me@my_domain.com
Delivery-date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:46:06 -0500
Received: from nobody by my_server.com with local (Exim 4.68)
(envelope-from <nobody@my_server.com>)
id 1IYipZ-0006FV-VS
for me@my_domain.com; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:46:06 -0500
To: me@my_domain.com
Subject: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?WxskQj83NSxDbUo4GyhCXSAbJEIkNENtSjgkIiRqJCwkSCQmJDQbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJDYkJCReJDkhIxsoQiBObzogMzQ=?=
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:46:05 -0500
From: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJDgkbSQmJV4hPCVIGyhC?= <me@my_domain.com>
Reply-to: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJDgkbSQmJV4hPCVIGyhC?= <me@my_domain.com>
Message-ID: <[email protected]_domain.com >
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer [version 1.73] via Zen Cart
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP"
Sender: Nobody <nobody@my_server.com >

E-Mail Transport Method: sendmail-f
E-Mail Linefeeds: LF
Use MIME HTML When Sending Emails: false
Verify E-Mail Addresses Through DNS: false
Send E-Mails: true
Email Archiving Active: false
E-Mail Friendly-Errors: true
Email Address (Displayed to Contact you): me@my_domain.com
Email Address (sent FROM): me@my_domain.com
Email Admin Format: TEXT

Zen cart 1.3.0.2-l10n-jp-2
PHP Version 4.4.7

I tried my other email address (earthlink), no success.
I hope someone will be able to help me.

Thank you.

[Merlinpa1969]

Zen Cart uses php and sendmail whichare owned by the user Nobody

one way to eliminate this are ti use smtp for your email settings,

[dillo]

Thank you for your quick reply.
I've tried both smtp and smtpauth but never got it to work.

This is the setting I use for smtpauth:

E-Mail Transport Method: smtpauth
E-Mail Linefeeds: LF
Use MIME HTML When Sending Emails: false
Verify E-Mail Addresses Through DNS: false
Send E-Mails: true
Email Archiving Active: false
E-Mail Friendly-Errors: true
Email Address (Displayed to Contact you): me@my_domain.com
Email Address (sent FROM): me@my_domain.com
Email Admin Format: TEXT
SMTP Email Account Mailbox: me@my_domain.com
SMTP Email Account Password: *********
SMTP Email Mail Host: mail.my_domain.com
SMTP Email Mail Server Port: 26

I use the same info for outlook to receive email from this address.
I don't know why it doesn't work for zen cart.....

[yellow1912]

You use the same info when RECEIVING email, but have you ever tried to send mails?(on outlook)

[dillo]

Yes, I have tried to send mail on outlook and it was successful.

[dillo]

Here's my setting for outlook.

[Chuckl]

'Nobody' is the Apache web server that is running your site. It is a username, just like admin, root, or any other. It simply means that the mail was sent by the web server.

The one setting you never mention in regard to PHP or sendmail -f is Admin-Config-Email Options-
Email must send from known domain.

It is a good idea to set that to 'yes' or 'true'.

What you set your Outlook email client to has nothing to do with your server settings at your hosting company. You should ask them -
Is it possible to use smtp for website mail?
If so, is it plain smtp or smtpauth?
And, what are the server, port, user and password settings to use.

[Merlinpa1969]

ou can also ask your host if they offer accounts on servers with phpsuexec,
that is the BEST solution,
the emails are always sent out as the username

[dillo]

Yes, "Email must send from known domain" is set to "true".
I tried all of the methods - sendmail, sendamil-f, smtp, smtpauth.
I tried port 26 and port 25....
Phpsuexec sounds great, but they don't offer it at this time.

[DrByte]

Zen cart 1.3.0.2-l10n-jp-2

There have been a lot of updates since v1.3.0.2

I suggest upgrading in order to benefit from the bugfixes, including those related to email.