Bug 290004

Summary:	Please add mail() header patch to PHP
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michal Margula <alchemyx>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	PHP Bugs <php-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	newsgroup.spam
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Michal Margula 2009-10-21 12:30:48 UTC

There is a little patch at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/~steveb/patches/php-mail-header-patch/ . It could be added safely to PHP patchset. Purpose of this patch is to add simple header to every mail sent using mail() function. It looks like:

X-PHP-Script: <servername><php-self> for <remote-addr>
X-PHP-Script: www.example.com/~user/testapp/send-mail.php for 10.0.0.1

It can help A LOT when somebody is spamming using your server or using scripts of some unsuspecting Individuhals. It applies properly against 5.12.11 and works just fine on x86 platform.

Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Matti Bickel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-04-05 22:18:21 UTC

Thanks for your interest in gentoos php! I've considered the positive impact of your idea against our ground rule of staying as close to upstream as possible and decided not to include the patch.

We're actively aiming to REDUCE the size of our patchset, not increase it. So maybe you can open a feature request at bugs.php.net and see if upstream is willing to include it.

Comment 2 Ole Markus With (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-28 13:36:39 UTC

*** Bug 406093 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***