Comments on: Configuring exim4 in Ubuntu to use GMail for SMTP

By: sunil

sunil — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:08:12 +0000

Thank you. Worked perfectly. Very much appreciated.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:46:12 +0000

@ Bilal

There are a few characters in php which require escaping:
\n linefeed (LF or 0×0A (10) in ASCII)
\r carriage return (CR or 0×0D (13) in ASCII)
\t horizontal tab (HT or 0×09 (9) in ASCII)
\v vertical tab (VT or 0×0B (11) in ASCII) (since PHP 5.2.5)
\f form feed (FF or 0×0C (12) in ASCII) (since PHP 5.2.5)
\\ backslash
\$ dollar sign
\” double-quote

By: Bilal Akhtar

Bilal Akhtar — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:50:42 +0000

I noticed one more problem.
If your password has a $ sign, you wont be able to send it.
To rectify this problem, add a \ before the $ sign.
Example :- pass$word will become pass\$word

By: manu

manu — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:41:25 +0000

@alfred: not sure. Again this is something that can be easily done by the script. When the script sends mails it can set a proper from address

By: Alfred

Alfred — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:10:14 +0000

@manu: Thanks. I made a ‘contactus’ address, so it makes sense. I had one more question in the same area:

exim4 seems to add the logged-in linux user’s name as the sender’s name. Is there a way I can tell exim4 which name to put? ie: if I am logged in as Alfred Inacio, and my username is ainaico… even though the emails are sent from contactus@peoplewithbandaids.com, it still shows my name (Alfred Inacio) as the sender.

Thanks!

By: manu

manu — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:11:29 +0000

@alfred: The reply-to address in the default wordpress install will be that of the commenter in case of comments. The from address cannot be changed from that of the gmail account as far as I know.

Since you are using a custom form, you may need to look at the source of default wordpress comments and see how it handles email

By: Alfred

Alfred — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:36:52 +0000

This is great! I got it working — Thanks! I have one small issue. In wordpress, I have a contact 7 form. When I send the email, I want the return-address to show that of the person who sent the email… not the gmail account I programmed into exim4… you know what I mean?

So in wordpress, in the from section, I place a variable: [your-name] … which corresponds to the email address that the sender typed in. But When I open the email, it looks like it is from exim4’s gmail account.

Please help!

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By: shelly

shelly — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:50:33 +0000

Hi Manu,
thanks for the documet. helped me totally. great work.
thanks again.