sendmail returned error code 8

Question

Simple PHP script running on BlueHost where mail is handled by Google Apps:

<?php
  require_once('Mail.php');
  $subject = 'Test Subject';
  $message = 'Test Message';

  $to = '[email protected]'; // address on this domain
  $from = '[email protected]'; // another address on the domain
  $fromname = 'John Doe';

  $headers = array(
    'Return-Path' => $from,
    'From' => $from,
    'X-Priority' => '3',
    'X-Mailer' => 'PHP ' . phpversion(),
    'Reply-To' =>  "$fromname <$from>",
    'MIME-Version' => '1.0',
    'Content-Transfer-Encoding' => '8bit',
    'Content-Type' => 'text/plain; charset=UTF-8',
    'To' => $to,
    'Subject' => $subject
  );

  $params = '-i -v -f ' . $from;
  $sendmail = Mail::factory('sendmail', $params);
  $mail = $sendmail->send($to, $headers, $message);

  if (PEAR::isError($mail)) { $status = $mail->getMessage(); }
?>

$status is being set to sendmail returned error code 8.

Answer 1

Looks like I needed to do two things:

1. BlueHost checks that the From: address is in cPanel--even if Google Apps handles the mail. Apparently cPanel updates the trusted users list for sendmail.

2. If the To: address is on the same host, it also has to exist in cPanel, although I'm not sure why (sendmail optimization?).