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Postby Boxguy » Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:12 pm
Here's the response from the development team on the bug report above:

Basically you need to use SMTP. We no longer support very old sendmail versions (which are having a bug and 2.0.x circumventing this by using sendmail-specific code - which in turn did not work for any other mailer).



Essentially it's a problem that exists with Sendmail up through the most recent stable version (8.14.2). Instead of using PHP's mail() function use SMTP with localhost as the server. If that doesn't work, find out what the address of your hosting provider's SMTP server(s) is/are, and use that. I tried using SMTP to localhost on my installs where the boxes use Sendmail, and it appears to resolve the issue.

aj: You're right that it doesn't work only when the addresses are hidden. See the bug report linked to above to read a more detailed explanation as to why.

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Postby bestempire » Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:20 pm
I am now using Godaddy as host which has also problem with their mailer I think
I don't know if they have SMTP for free together with the host!

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