Bug #25862 [Com]: mail() always return FALSE

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25862&edit=1 ID: 25862 Comment by: zhirkow at gmail dot com Reported by: thouraud at bondy dot ird dot fr Summary: mail() always return FALSE Status: Wont fix Type: Bug Package: Mail related Operating System: solaris 9 PHP Version: 4.3.3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: still having this problem with php 5.2 on centos 5.6 x86 mail() return false with no reason or explaination of what happens. also nothing in logs... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-05-06 04:07:03] roguedragon at merging dot org PHP version 4.3.6 / Apache 1.3.29 on FreeBSD Having the same problem listed here, but I recompiled php & apache without the --enable-sigchild flag, restarted everything, and mail() is still returning false even though the mail is going through correctly. Any suggestions? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-14 17:53:37] iliaa@php.net When PHP is compiled with --enable-sigchild the return codes of executed programs are lost. Once of those programs is sendmail, since PHP cannot fetch the return code it assumes the program had failed. Hence the always FALSE return value of mail(). Normally mail() returns false only when communication between PHP & sendmail fails. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-14 13:05:24] thouraud at bondy dot ird dot fr Without the --enable-sigchild configure option, it seems that mail() alwayes return TRUE. Even if the mail server returns an "unknown error" with a false email, or an "No recipients specified" with a blank first field of mail(). Is that normal ? When mail() returns FALSE ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-14 11:13:37] sniper@php.net Okay, try removing the --enable-sigchild configure option and reconfigure/compile PHP. (don't forget to delete config.cache before reconfiguring!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-14 10:44:48] thouraud at bondy dot ird dot fr the configure line is : ./configure --with-apxs=/opt/apache/bin/apxs --prefix=/opt/apache --with-config-file-path=/opt/apache/conf --with-mysql --disable-debug --enable-trans-sid --with-oci8=/opt/oracle/product/9201 --enable-dbase --enable-safe-mode --disable-magic-quotes --enable-sigchild --enable-ldap --with-zlib=/opt/sfwplus --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --enable-zend-multibyte --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-exif --with-jpeg-dir=/opt/sfwplus --with-png-dir=/opt/sfwplus --with-tiff-dir=/opt/sfwplus --with-gd --with-iconv --with-pgsql=/opt/postgres ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25862 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25862&edit=1