Re[2]: [PHP] mail() ERROR - WHY, WHY, WHY

From: Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:41:09 +0000
Subject: Re[2]: [PHP] mail() ERROR - WHY, WHY, WHY
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Hello Jason, Monday, September 10, 2001, 12:26:30 AM, you wrote: >> I drowing here and need a life-ring! I have a site relying heavily on >> e-mail registration, forums, etc. and mail() is broken in my php >> install. I've been using an smtp server other than sendmail, but >> based on recommendations I have removed that smtp server, removed php, >> installed sendmail, reinstalled php, and php still complains that >> "Warning: mail() is not supported in this PHP build" and sendmail is >> clearly in my /var/lib/php.ini sendmail_path and the location is >> correct. I can send mail from the command line, but not via php's >> mail() >> >> Need Heeeeeelp! real bad. JB> Hi JB> Can you please provide more info about your php version, operating system, JB> installation method, configure line (if compiled from source) etc? Yes, running RH ditribution 7.1, PHP 4.0.6 compile from source, and sendmail 8.10.11.0.rpm (note that I would like to use my dmail smtp server and only installed sendmail to troublshoot this problem. here in my php build: ---------------------------------- CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \ --with-apache=/usr/local/src/Apachetoolbox-1.5.38/apache_1.3.20 \ --enable-exif \ --enable-track-vars \ --with-calendar=shared \ --enable-safe-mode \ --enable-magic-quotes \ --enable-trans-sid \ --enable-wddx \ --enable-ftp \ --with-gd="/usr/local" \ --with-zlib \ --enable-gd-native-tt \ --with-t1lib="/usr/local/lib/php/t1libs" \ --with-jpeg-dir="/usr/local" \ --with-png-dir="/usr/local" \ --with-zlib-dir="/usr/local" \ --with-ttf \ --with-freetype-dir="/usr/local" \ --with-imap=/usr/local \ --with-mhash=/usr/local \ --with-mcrypt=/usr/local \ --with-unixODBC=/usr/local/unixODBC \ --with-mysql \ ------------------------------------ Here are the sendmail_path entries I've tried in my php.ini: ----- ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: 'sendmail -t -i'). ;sendmail_path = ---- sendmail_path = /usr/sbin ---- sendmail_path = ".:/usr/sbin" ---- After each change to my php.ini, I restart my Apache (1.3.20) server and run phpinfo() to ensure changes are accpeted - they always are. -- Best regards, Badger mailto:badger@pongo.org

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