Re: OS need anything for mail() to work?
| From: | Eric Butera | Date: | Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:35:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: OS need anything for mail() to work? | ||
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Brian Dunning <brian@briandunning.com> wrote:
> I'm running PHP 5.2.5 on OS X 10.5.2, and using the following code:
>
> ini_set('sendmail_from','address@mydomain.com');
> ini_set('SMTP','working.server.com');
> mail('brian@mydomain.com', 'Subject', 'Message');
>
> The servers and addresses are KNOWN TO WORK, I use this same code and same
> info on a number of different web servers around the world. Authentication
> is absolutely not the problem. This code works on other computers, but it
> doesn't work on mine. I get no error, but no email is ever sent.
>
> So my question: Is there something that needs to be installed, running, or
> otherwise configured on a computer to make sure PHP can send emails? How
> could I test for this?
>
>
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You can also try doing tail -f /var/log/mail.log at the terminal to
see if it says anything there.