Re: why is this not a bug? (popen, pclose)

At 6:47 PM -0700 7/13/00, Dan Donaldson wrote: >Having started out trying to get mail() to work, I still am not clear why it >would not. So since I notice that a couple of you (Bill, Philip) are >experienced >with BSD and might be familiar with OSX, let me ask you if you can give me >some >idea why mail would fail on my machine, and perhaps some details about >your own >configurations on similar machines to mine. > >To summarize (this is in a previous post about 2 million messages ago) - > >php.ini correctly tells php the location of sendmail. Sendmail can send a >message fine from another application (mailviewer). mail() returns 1 ( no >matter >where php thinks sendmail is - and mail is never sent. > >Should I interpret the 1 returned as a failure (doesn't seem right)? Or >success >with the problem lying somewhere else? And what can I do to get it to work? I >hate to plead, but the fact is that while I'm a pretty good programmer in >scripting languages, I'm a little out of my depth when we start talking Unix >nitty gritty... > >Does php need to compiled in a way that tells it to use sendmail? (I'm >assuming >not since the php.ini file tells it where it is). Are there simple >instructions >to help me write a c program and compile and run it to test what's going >on? are >the values for sendmail_from or smtp in the php.ini file relevant here? Well, an error code of 1 implies that your process doesn't have permission to do whatever it is you're trying to do. The only other thing I can think of is that someone on this list recently had problems with sendmail and I think it boiled down to adding the -t option to the sendmail command. I've only tested the mail() function once just for fun and it worked without any reconfiguring by me so I'm not going to be able to help you very much. Sorry. Bill --- Bill Rausch, Software Development, Unix, Mac, Windows Numerical Applications, Inc. 509-943-0861 bill@numerical.com