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Originally Posted by pchip

I'm not following the last part of this. A host can add a patch to PHP to where it will include the script that sent the e-mail. Does this mean that the script code is somewhere that people can see? I must be overlooking something as this doesn't make sense. pc

I assume you mean you don't get this >>

Originally Posted by SecondVersion

Most hosts will also add a patch to PHP to where it includes the script that sends the email.

What SV is saying is that to help host know where your PHP file is if you are sending out spam (ie: by reading this line, if someone forwards email to host reporting it as spam), they set it to include the following header for example:

X-PHP-Script: www.yourdomain.com/yourfolder/emailer.php for 209.255.255.255

*** Above is domain...some server admins set it up to show path instead:

/home/username/yourfolder/emailer.php

That would tell them that the script that sent the email was at www.yourdomain.com/yourfolder/emailer.php and that it was sent using a browser with IP# 209.255.255.255 , for example. That way host knows what script to go investigate. THIS is good on the server-end, as helps catch spammers. The BAD part is that it tells anyone who gets the email what URL they can go to abuse the script themselves - SO, password protect scripts or directories that send email, or make them part of coding whereby just visiting the URL itself with known variables attached doesn't just send-out emails!

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