Re: [cobalt-users] RE: RE:How can I rename my Raq 4i from "nobody"? Help from anyone other than Dan?

[Jan Tietze <jptietze@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Orsatti wrote:

> >> Or maybe there is something I can add to the form, a hidden value
> >> maybe that
> >> will overide this?  I know on my last server, an NT server the
> >> emailed forms
> >> came from IUSR_NTxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and those were easy to identify by
> >> customers as returned forms.
> >>
> >Most forms have an "email" field so the sender becomes whoever filled in
> the
> >form. http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ for Matt Wright's FormMail.
>
> Of course the form has an email field Dan.  This is a question about Cobalt
> Raq's and how to Identify the script/program that writes the virtusertable
> which sends out all the forms from "nobody".  Thanks anyways for trying Dan.

It's interesting to see how those with little knowledge on a particular topic
react to those with none at all ;-)

The virtusertable has absolutely no relation to the header fields identifying
the _sender_ of an e-mail message. The virtusertable is used only when the
_destination_ domain of a message matches one that is included in Sendmail's
class w (sendmail.cw) which contains a list of host names that are to be
considered local. The virtusertable is then evaluated for a match, and according
to the result, a rewrite rule is applied.

For _sending_ messages, you just have to change the appropriate "From:" field in
the header of the message you are sending to whatever you want it to be.
Additionally, you might have to add the user that is running the script
(typically user httpd) to /etc/mail/sendmail.ct.

Jan