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Need to add additional parameter to sendmail function?

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Darren Turpin

12:09 pm November 19, 2008

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Please replace the ??? with your data!

URL to the FORM: http://www.orbitbooks.net/contact-us/
The browser used: Any
cforms version: 9.2
Your Wordpress version: 2.5.1

The site above is hosted by Fasthosts in the UK, who have some specific requirements for outgoing email sent viaa form (the following from their help documentation):

2) To stop misuse of your form by third parties the sendmail_from variable should be set to your Fasthosts hosted email address. While access to the php.ini file is restricted on our shared environment, you can sent this variable using the ini_set() command, shown below.

3) A fifth parameter -f should be added to the sendmail function. This will set the name of the from email address.

They give an example as follows:

$sent = mail($email_to, $email_subject, $message, $headers, '-f .$email_from');

Is there any way of adapting CForms to comply with the above? I've looked in a number of files,  but I can't work it out... 

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

posts 6237

7:19 pm November 19, 2008

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Can't you simply set the FROM: and admin email address to the correct entries in cforms?

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Matt Davies

7:47 pm November 19, 2008

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Darren – YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

We need a fix for exactly the same issue as you describe above – I've tried quite a few bits so as not to hack cforms – even tried fast hosts SMTP server but still no joy! Any help would be much appreciated…

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

posts 6237

8:08 pm November 19, 2008

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Darren – YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

I'm sure Darren is not deaf nor am I. So I guess your shouting indicates your level of frustration. In which case, to save you from further pain, I would recommend you check out alternative plugins.

Of course no one is stopping you from changing the core code which uses PHP's mail() command. If you provider supports PHP and sendmail, they should support mail().

If you do have to use the Envelope From:, you may try adding:

$sendmail_args = "-fbounce_address@your_domain.com";

$sentadmin = @mail($to, encode_header($vsubject), $fmessage.$attached, $headers, $sendmail_args);

for all mail() occurences in lib_ajax.php and lib_nonajax.php

the code in blue may vary depending on the mail() call

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Matt Davies

11:42 pm November 19, 2008

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Apologies for shouting (didn't mean to!)- not at all frustrated with Cforms – its a superb plugin – more with the headach of editing stuff I have little knowledge about! I'll try your suggestions Oliver, many thanks for your time and thoughts…