Re: mail problems - phpinfo information

Hello, On 10/13/2004 01:41 PM, Jed R. Brubaker wrote:

I have been having all kinds of problems with the mail() function in PHP. I realize that there are problems inheritly, but I think I am still trying to track down the problem. My latest theory is that PHP isn't set up to work with the right mailing program. I know that our system is supposed to be using qmail that actually sits on a different server, but I found interesting information in phpinfo that is making me wonder if a local sendmail is handling the requests instead. Here are the things I am finding in phpinfo: sendmail_from no value no value sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i SMTP localhost localhost smtp_port 25 25 Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i Enviornment MAIL /var/mail/kpratt (what does this one do?) With all of the above refering to sendmail, is there anyway that my mail() can actually be using qmail?

I don't think so. qmail is by default at /var/qmail. If you have installed qmail, you should have uninstalled sendmail first, otherwise it may cause system havoc (all sorts of problems). Anyway, qmail comes with a sendmail emulation wrapper in /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. The right thing to do is to uninstall sendmail and do something like: ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail Notice that it is /usr/lib/sendmail, which is the default sendmail program location since ever. Usually that location is a symbolic link to the real location of the sendmail (emulation) program. /usr/sbin/sendmail is the location of the real sendmail program (not the qmail emulation). -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html