Re: mail() w/ postfix problem in Fedora Core 3

From: Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:03:50 +0000
Subject: Re: mail() w/ postfix problem in Fedora Core 3
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Nathaniel Price wrote: > I've been searching for the solution to this problem to no avail. > > I recently did a clean install of FC3 on a server that was running RH8. > There were a number of PHP scripts that I had configured to send out > email for notices or passwords or the like. However, now that I've > upgraded I can't send mail through the mail() command in PHP. > > My problem is exactly like what I found here, but unfortunately that > question was left unanswerd: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg06708.html > > To summarize, I have no problem sending email via SMTP (one of the apps > I run has the option to choose between using PHP mail() or using it's > own SMTP client). Whenever I try to send mail with mail(), apache logs > the following error: > sendmail: fatal: chdir /var/spool/postfix: Permission denied Confirm what user PHP is running as. http://php.net/phpinfo.php su to that user. try to do: cd /var/spool/postfix Or is 'chdir' not 'cd' ? -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm

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