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    Posted by dweade posts: 22

    Hello,

    Having a problem with my email. I've been reading through the forums, looking for a solution, and it seems my issue might be more unique than those I've been reading.

    I've set the sender email to my email. I created a test account with a different email. When I request a password reminder, an email is generated, but it is not delivered to the user email, but bounces back to my admin email with the following:

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    Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

    This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

    A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
    recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

    xxxxx at gmail.com
    Mail sent by user nobody being discarded due to sender restrictions in WHM->Tweak Settings
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    I've spent hours in my tikiwiki installation and online looking for solutions. Is there somewhere I can set the user name from 'nobody' to my name or an admin name?

    This seems to be the last issue I have to work out with my Tikiwiki install, so any input is extremely appreciated.

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    Posted by dweade posts: 22

    Rick, Thanks for jumping in.

    * Did you assign a Sender Email in your General Administration? - YES

    * Is the email address an actual, valid email account? - YES

    * What is the sendmail_from value in your php.ini? - no php.ini on my service. I spoke to their support specialists and said the php.ini is not available, but I should be able to add this detail to my .htaccess file. Been reading all morning, and have tried several options to no avail.

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    Posted by flightdispatcher posts: 2

    Hello,

    I'm just getting into all of this, so please assume That I may have missed something VERY basic.

    I'm having pretty much the same problem as noted in the original post by dweade.
    I have set up a wiki and now I am testing the new user experience, I have set it to send a validation email and a password reminder email. The email notifying me of a new user request arrives no problem, I activate it, then I get a Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender message.

    This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.


    A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
    recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX at XXXXXX.com
    Mail sent by user nobody being discarded due to sender restrictions in WHM->Tweak Settings

    -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. --

    Return-path:
    Received: from nobody by cheetah.host-care.com with local (Exim 4.69)
    (envelope-from )
    id 1KiT4F-00006u-Cy
    for XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX at XXXXXXXXXXX.com; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:02:03 -0400
    To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX at XXXXXXXXXXXX.com
    Subject: Confirm your email at XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.info
    X-PHP-Script: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.info/tiki-login_validate.php for XXXXXXXXXXXX
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    From: admin@XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXinfo
    Reply-To:
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    Message-ID:

    Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:02:03 -0400


    I have set the sender email as admin at XXXXXXX.info, am I suposed to enter an other code?
    The email account works, I can send and recieve email from the webmail interface in my wiki. I tested it to the various new user emails and they worked both ways.
    I do not have a php.ini file or access to WHM -> Tweak Settings (or I don't think I do, I can't find it on cPanel X)
    In phpinfo I see:
    sendmail_from no value no value
    sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

    I think the system understands to send an email with my address on it when I am logged in, but when I'm not there and a new user registers then the email is sent as NOBODY and get's rejected.

    PLEASE HELP!!!

    thanks in advance, PS I think what you guys do here is great!

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    Posted by dweade posts: 22

    flightdispatcher2 points,

    What worked for me, in the end, was switching the default email settings in the mysql database.

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