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    copied!<p>I have a SMF forum installed on my own server. But for some reason that I am unable to found, SMF send emails for new user-activation without any "from" email address, just as "apache". Obviously, most email server does not allow that and the email is never received.</p> <p>I get the following postfix message to my postmaster account.</p> <pre><code>&lt;email@dest.example.com&gt;: host dest.example.com[255.255.255.255] said: 501 &lt;apache&gt;: sender address must contain a domain (in reply to MAIL FROM command) Reporting-MTA: dns; my.example.com X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 62653A403D7 X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; apache Arrival-Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:44:57 +0200 (CEST) Final-Recipient: rfc822; email@dest.example.com Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: dns; dest.example.com Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 501 &lt;apache&gt;: sender address must contain a domain Return-Path: &lt;apache&gt; Received: by my.example.com (Postfix, from userid 48) id 62653A403D7; Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:44:57 +0200 (CEST) To: email@dest.example.com Subject: EXAMPLE TITLE X-PHP-Originating-Script: 48:Subs-Post.php From: "MY PAGE TITLE" &lt;noreply@my.example.com&gt; Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 23:44:57 -0000 X-Mailer: SMF Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="SMF-2b3ce4fbf69b6d2e40cb7c5b15d5a97c" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: &lt;20130712234457.62653A403D7@my.example.com&gt; </code></pre> <p>I think the problem may be:</p> <ol> <li>Some configuration for php/apache/postfix is missing.</li> <li>SMF need some additional configuration or has a bug.</li> <li>any other idea?</li> </ol> <p>PS: The SMF is configured to send emails by PHP (not SMTP)</p> <p>Any idea of how to solve this problem?</p> <p>EDITING: Following the SMTP communication.</p> <pre><code> In: 220 server.domain.com ESMTP Exim 4.69 Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:51:21 -0400 Out: EHLO my.example.com In: 250-server.domain.com Hello my.example.com [79.143.177.174] In: 250-SIZE 20971520 In: 250-PIPELINING In: 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN In: 250-STARTTLS In: 250 HELP Out: MAIL FROM:&lt;apache&gt; Out: RCPT TO:&lt;email@dest.example.com&gt; Out: DATA In: 501 &lt;apache&gt;: sender address must contain a domain In: 503 sender not yet given In: 503-All RCPT commands were rejected with this error: In: 503-503 sender not yet given In: 503 Valid RCPT command must precede DATA Out: RSET Out: QUIT In: 250 Reset OK </code></pre>
 

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