Re: mail problems - phpinfo information

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jed R. Brubaker" <jrb21398@hotmail.com> Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 1:21 pm Subject: Re: [PHP] mail problems - phpinfo information > So as I am not an administrator, and all I have to go on is > phpinfo (unless > anyone has some suggestions), should I be seeing some trace of > qmail in the > phpinfo? No. > > That is why I posted. I apologize if I didn't make it clear. I > have read all > about mail, maybe read, but not quite understanding? and even used the fantastic Lemos MIME problem > correcting email > class to try to tackle my problems from a different angle. > > Given the paths phpinfo is reporting, is there anyway that the > system could > somehow still be using qmail? Or is that outside the scope of what > this > phpinfo can tell me? Yes, it could be using qmail, or sendmail, or postfix. PHP calls "sendmail" which is a binary that could be a shell for any of the MTA's mentioned above. The sendmail provides a interface for PHP, it is up to the sys admin to make sure that the MTA being used is properly configured. > > Thanks again! > > > "Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com> wrote in > message > news:C8F323573C030A448F3E5A2B6FE2070B03522B76@nemesis... > [snip] > ... making me wonder if a local sendmail is handling the requests > instead. > > With all of the above refering to sendmail, is there anyway that my > mail() > can actually be using qmail? > [/snip] > > From http://www.php.net/mail, something you have not read > apparently.... > "For the Mail functions to be available, PHP must have access to the > sendmail binary on your system during compile time. [LOOKIE > HERE------>If you use another mail program, such as qmail or > postfix, be > sure to use the appropriate sendmail wrappers that come with > them.<------END LOOKIE] PHP will first look for sendmail in your PATH, > and then in the following: > /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:/etc:/usr/ucblib:/usr/lib. It's highly > recommended to have sendmail available from your PATH. Also, the user > that compiled PHP must have permission to access the sendmail > binary. " > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >