Hi, thanks for all your excellent work in Limesurvey. I need help or clarification with „Email bounce tracking system“ settings.

- with „SMTP“ email method “Email bounce tracking system” works excellent for me
- I need to use PHP email method because of limit for e-mails sent by SMTP within my webhosting provider.
- but when I switch to the default „PHP“ email method, I have these problems:
- 1) return-path in e-mail header switch automatically to the admin e-mail - and does not respect settings for bounced emails (both global setting for bounced e-mails, nor specific settings for single survey)
- 2) then bounced back emails are sent to the admin e-mail, not to the specific deliveryfailure e-mail address
- 3) and “Email bounce tracking system” does not work (there are no emails within the inbox of specific deliveryfailure e-mail)

So, my questions are:
- does „Email bounce tracking system“ requires „SMTP“ email method?
- why PHP email method don´t use in survey settings defined “email address for bounced emails” and puts in email header as “Return-path” admin e-mail address? (or is this just a strange behavior of my installations?)


Additional info:
Tested in Limesurvey: a) 2.05 build 141 123 (today upgraded), b) 2.05+ Build 140915, c) 2.05+ Build 140911.
Server: Apache/2.2.25, PHP/5.3.28-pl3-gentoo, IMAP c-Client Version 2007f.

Not an answer to your question, but possible another headache to add:

If your provider has a limit for emails sent by SMTP I am quite sure he has a similar limit for emails sent via PHP, because this is usually a bigger source of spam than SMTP.

I would check this before I would do anything else.

Hi, thanks for fast reply. I have checked it before - limit for by SMTP sent emails is much more lower then for emails sent by PHP.

So can you help me with my issues? It is more then week now...

Don't remind where exactly, but apache can force Return-path for php. Look at php.ini file maybe.

PS: i use php method with Return Path

Thank you, I will try to find it.