if possible can you please adjust the email address in my bug report to be a non real domain as I don't want my email to be trawled from this bug report.

please change it to
php_value sendmail_path '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f
cameron@this_domain.com'


Thanks

This is not a bug, but meant to work like this due to security reasons. (Ie, we don't want people to be able to configure their own sendmail path in .htaccess files).

The correct way of doing what you want is to use the php_admin_value mail.force_extra_parameters setting, which is configurable per vhost.. unfortunately that only works in PHP 5 (dev).

If you are comfortable patching, you can apply the following patch to php 4.3.6 (it should also apply to 4.3.4):

Index: main/main.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /repository/php-src/main/main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.512.2.53
diff -u -p -r1.512.2.53 main.c
--- main/main.c 9 Feb 2004 04:05:56 -0000       1.512.2.53
+++ main/main.c 20 May 2004 10:26:04 -0000
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ PHP_INI_BEGIN()
 #endif
        PHP_INI_ENTRY("precision",                                      "14",           PHP_INI_ALL,            OnSetPrecision)
        PHP_INI_ENTRY("sendmail_from",                          NULL,           PHP_INI_ALL,            NULL)
-       PHP_INI_ENTRY("sendmail_path",  DEFAULT_SENDMAIL_PATH,  PHP_INI_SYSTEM,         NULL)
+       PHP_INI_ENTRY("sendmail_path",  DEFAULT_SENDMAIL_PATH,  PHP_INI_SYSTEM|PHP_INI_PERDIR,          NULL)
        PHP_INI_ENTRY("disable_functions",                      "",                     PHP_INI_SYSTEM,         NULL)
        PHP_INI_ENTRY("disable_classes",                        "",                     PHP_INI_SYSTEM,         NULL)


But make sure to use php_admin_value sendmail_path "your command"  so that it can't be overridden from .htaccess files.

Then this is a documentation issue because on this page

http://au.php.net/ini_set

sendmail_path DEFAULT_SENDMAIL_PATH PHP_INI_SYSTEM 

where 
PHP_INI_SYSTEM 4 Entry can be set in php.ini or httpd.conf  

It claims you CAN set it in a httpd.conf NOT

Also you said I can't set in in .htaccess I am not being picky but I did state that I am trying to set it in the httpd.conf which is completely different.

It can be set in httpd.conf, just not in a virtual host setting.

Actually come to think of it I have moved this back into the config issues as a bug because you thought I was talking about a .htaccess file. 

It is fair enough that you limit the modification of sendmail_path in a .htaccess file.

However as the manual states you CAN modify this in the httpd.conf which is where we are trying to modify it. Since htttp.conf files are generally only controlled by administrators then this is not a security issue.

php_admin_value sendmail_path "blah" 
works just fine.

Thankyou :)

I thought that you could only set ini variables with this

php_value  sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f from@what.ever"

I did not know about this one.

php_admin_value  sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f from@what.ever"

It works perfectly. Sorry for submitting a bug but I found nothing in any newsgroup/google/mailing list regarding this problem and assumed it was bug.

Thanks for a great product people :)

I have posted an entry in the online php manual for this problem incase others come across it.