#25862 [Opn->WFx]: mail() always return FALSE

ID: 25862 Updated by: iliaa@php.net Reported By: thouraud at bondy dot ird dot fr -Status: Open +Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Mail related Operating System: solaris 9 PHP Version: 4.3.3 New Comment: 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. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-14 10:34:18] sniper@php.net What was the configure line you used to configure PHP? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-14 08:26:31] thouraud at bondy dot ird dot fr Description: ------------ The mail() function always return FALSE. Even if the mail is sent ! Test with the sun's sendmail and postfix 2.0.16. The mail can go out with no problem. The result get the same safe_mode or not. apache 1.3.28 with php as a module Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $ret = mail ("user@domain.tld", "sujet " . date("l dS of F Y h:i:s A"), "corps\nl2\nl3\n", "From: user@domain.tld\r\n" ."Reply-To: user@domain.tld\r\n" ) ; print "ret = $ret<hr>" ; if ($ret) { print 'OK<br>' ; } else { print 'KO<br>' ; } ?> Expected result: ---------------- if we can send mail to user@domain.tld then OK and user@domain.tld receive the mail. if any error to sent mail then KO and no mail ! Actual result: -------------- always KO but the mail are been received ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25862&edit=1