Re: mail function fails

/usr/sbin/sendmail should be SUID root, if your isn't change that and it should work fine. Julia Quoting Shrout, Ryan (Rshrout@krauss-maffeicorp.com): > I don't think that is it anymore. I have a new discovery. Upon running the > actually PHP script from the console, the code works! But only when I am > logged in as root. When logging is as anyone else, the mail() function > fails with a Permission Denied on /usr/sbin/sendmail > > So, it would appear that sendmail is not configured to allow others to use > it? Is there a quick easy way to fix this? > > Thanks! > > Ryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Geier, CDM Systems Admin [mailto:mgeier@cdmsports.com] > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:57 AM > To: Shrout, Ryan > Subject: RE: [PHP] mail function fails > > > RPM's tend to hose installations. May I suggest: > rpm -qa | grep php > rpm -e [insert php rpm name here] > rpm -e [apache rpm] > > get the source for apache 1.3.20 (http://www.apache.org) > get the source for php and compile per installation docs on php > website > > You will enjoy the results alot more. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shrout, Ryan [mailto:Rshrout@krauss-maffeicorp.com] > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 9:46 AM > To: 'Michael Geier, CDM Systems Admin' > Subject: RE: [PHP] mail function fails > > > Well, just using Red Hat 7.1 and sendmail with PHP 4.0.5. Sendmail was > installed default in the RH installation, and then I installed the latest > PHP RPM afterwards. > > Oh well. > > Ryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Geier, CDM Systems Admin [mailto:mgeier@cdmsports.com] > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:45 AM > To: Shrout, Ryan > Subject: RE: [PHP] mail function fails > > > Are you trying to use a MTA besides Sendmail? > > Some info would be helpful, such as: > OS > MTA (Sendmail Qmail, etc) > PHP version > > If you installed PHP without sendmail installed, mail() will not work. > That doesn't mean that you can't use a different MTA. > > When I switched to Qmail on a new server, a had a problem with mail() > not working. > > I reinstalled OS (redhat 7.1) with sendmail, installed PHP (4.05), > installed QMAIL per docs concerning replacing sendmail, changed > php.ini file to reflect sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject. > > HTH > --- > Michael Geier > CDM Sports, Inc. - Systems Administrator > email: mgeier@cdmsports.com > phone: 314.991.1511 x 6505 > pager: 314.318.9414 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shrout, Ryan [mailto:Rshrout@krauss-maffeicorp.com] > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 9:23 AM > To: PHP Mailingliste > Subject: RE: [PHP] mail function fails > > > Darn, still didn't work. > > Anyone else have a suggestion? Or a way to view an error message of some > kind? > > Ryan Shrout > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Taubert [mailto:timtaubert@web.de] > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 9:51 AM > To: PHP Mailingliste > Subject: RE: [PHP] mail function fails > > > mh.. > > <?php > if (mail("timtaubert@web.de", "Quote Request", "test")) { > echo "Email sent!"; > } else { > echo "Email NOT sent!"; > } > ?> > > this worked successfully... don't have any other ideas.. > > bye tim > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tim Taubert | timtaubert@web.de | > http://www.shogunat.com/rg/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shrout, Ryan [mailto:Rshrout@krauss-maffeicorp.com] > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:30 PM > To: PHP Mailingliste > Subject: RE: [PHP] mail function fails > > > I tried that in this format: > > if ( mail("bsmall@ikmc.com", "Quote Request", $message, "From: > mail@somewhere.com\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion()) ) { > echo "Email sent!"; > } else { > echo "Email NOT sent!"; > } > > and still get the Email NOT sent and no emails go anywhere. Is there > another solution? How about a way to get an error message of some kind? > > Ryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Taubert [mailto:timtaubert@web.de] > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 9:09 AM > To: PHP Mailingliste > Subject: RE: [PHP] mail function fails > > > hey ryan try something like this > > mail("bsmall@ikmc.com", "Quote Request", $message, "From: > mail@somewhere.com\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion()); > > hope this helps > > cya tim > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tim Taubert | timtaubert@web.de | > http://www.shogunat.com/rg/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shrout, Ryan [mailto:Rshrout@krauss-maffeicorp.com] > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:01 PM > To: 'php-general@lists.php.net' > Subject: [PHP] mail function fails > > > I am having a problem with the PHP mail() function. Here is the code: > > if (mail ("bsmall@ikmc.com", "Quote Request", $message)) { > echo "Email sent!"; > } else { > echo "Email NOT sent!"; > } > > Everytime, I receive the Email NOT sent message and the email isn't sent. > However, from the console on the same machine, I can run the mail command: > mail bsmall@ikmc.com and send an email just fine. > > Any ideas as to what could be wrong? > > I am using the latest PHP version and am running Red Hat Linux 7.1 > > Ryan Shrout > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [ Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for. ] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ]