[makaiguy]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

You need to add an "allow" or "include" to to your spf record for the domain like this:
a:vbulletin.org include:vbulletin.org
That allows the domain as a sender, i personally haven't had any issues with the email sending as i dont allow my users to use the email to a friend function or contact them by email but i'm guessing you'll have to add every domain that your users use.

No problem with sending OUR mail, with our address, via our server. Problem is sending mail originated by users with THEIR address in the From field. No way in hell I'm adding every domain used by over 50,000 registered users to our SPF record.

And btw, I misspoke earlier, and have struck out the erroneous text above. The email link to a friend option sends its message with the board's admin email address in the From field. This has caused me to have to add a bunch of boilerplate to those messages on the order of "DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE as replies go to the BBS admins not to the person sending this message to you." Of course, nobody bothers to read the caveats...

--------------- Added 05 May 2014 at 18:16 ---------------

Originally Posted by kh99

... If what he was told is true, then you should be able to fix it by using your own email in the "from" field, but put the user's email in reply-to.

.. which is precisely what I'm asking about doing.

[Toddling off to the referenced thread to see what's there ....]

--------------- Added 05 May 2014 at 23:22 ---------------

FURTHER RESEARCH

The vbmail() function is defined in includes/functions.php, as follows:

function vbmail($toemail, $subject, $message, $notsubscription = false, $from = '', $uheaders = '', $username = '')

The parameters are:

* @param string Destination email address
* @param string Email message subject
* @param string Email message body
* @param boolean If true, do not use the mail queue and send immediately
* @param string Optional name/email to use in 'From' header
* @param string Additional headers
* @param string Username of person sending the email

The function is called in sendmessage.php in several different places, depending on the sort of email being sent. So it looks to me that I'll need to hack sendmessage.php for my user-generated message types to add in a specified From address that utilizes my mail server as the 5th parameter, and a "Reply-to" header as the 6th parameter.