Re: SENDMAIL stopped sending through PHP - help?!?

From: Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 09:45:36 +0000
Subject: Re: SENDMAIL stopped sending through PHP - help?!?
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Hi Derek! On Mon, 08 Jan 2001, Derek Sivers wrote: > Can you help debug why SENDMAIL might have stopped working with PHP all of > a sudden on our Linux webserver? > > Sendmail does work on the command line. Like: echo "hello" > sendmail -t > subject testing@hotmail.com (yes it even sends externally.) > > But just won't be seen by PHP anymore. > > Yes "php.ini" is configured correctly. Hasn't changed in a month or > so. /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i > > And (IMPORTANT) - up until 3 days ago it worked fine, and we haven't > changed anything since then. (yes really!) > > Can anyone help me debug this? I know Linux & PHP quite well. Just never > had to debug sendmail before. > Wild guess: have you turned on safe mode and configured a safe exec dir? Maybe it cannot see the binary (no other binaries but those from the safe exec dir). mail() does a popen() to sendmail, so try to do that by yourself with PHP land functions and maybe you'll sort it out. gl -- teodor

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