Undelivered Mail Notifications

[Christopher McBride]

I (the system admin) am currently recieving undelivered mail notifications from apache when outgoing mails generated by a website are not being delivered.

Specifically from a forum registration page which seems to pick up a few spam registrations per day.
The link to activate the account is sent to the registering address - but some do not exist, resulting in the bounce.


I would expect that the undelivered mail notification is sent back to the sender address of the email.

They are, however, being sent to apache@[domain].com.



Can anyone offer any advice to set it to send the messages to the sending address?


Thanks

 

[Christopher McBride]

Anyone able to help on this?

It's also happening for other domains - and I presume it's a global setting somewhere to send the bounce to the name of the process rather than returning to sender.

 

[Christopher McBride]

Igor, can you offer any advice?

Thanks

 

[NicoH]

Same problem. Email bounces are not delivered to the sender but to apache@server
Any solution regarding this?

 

[NicoH]

Studying the e-mails learned me that the Return-Path is not set correctly.

PHPMailer has a function to overwrite this
Using
$mail->From = $email;
$mail->Sender = $email;
$mail->AddCustomHeader('Return-Path: '.$email.'');

Should overwrite the return path but that doesnt work.

Another tried solution was to change the php.ini file

sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f

but that stops mail from working completely.

Looks like sendmail overwrites the return path, which is very annoing since bounce messages are not delivered correctly. (they are send to apache@server.)
Any ideas on how to fix this?

 

[NicoH]

Christopher, did you found any solution?

 

[NicoH]

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