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How I set the php mail function for multiple domains correctly?

Posted on October 8, 2014

Hello,

Sometime ago I install the mail (php function), but when I tried to send the email by any HTML form the response was too slow. I solved the problem editting the /etc/hosts file with a correct FQDN.

I am using multiple domains (Virtual Host), and this week when I was installing another site I checked that the mails is sending slow again. How can i fix it again?

My /etc/hosts are:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.1.1 rioth.maindomain.me maindomain
162.243.11.116 rioth.maindomain.me maindomain
162.243.11.116 mail.anotherdomain.com mail
162.243.11.116 mail.otherdomain.co mail

Regards,



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There are a couple ways to accomplish this in sendmail but as you are not using sendmail as part of a fully fledged email server and only to send emails from your web scripts the following should do the trick:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    Standard stuff goes here

    <Directory /dir/to/your/web/root>
        php_admin_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -fuser@domain2.com"
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Adding this directive to your virtualhosts should set the default sender for the emails sent by your php scripts. In this case it is setting the sender to user@domain2.com for this virtualhost.

Be sure to restart apache after updating your configuration so the change can take effect.

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