Re: mail problem

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:43, Peter Houchin Sun Rentals STR Manager wrote: <SNIP headers: didja know dtmail was putting them in?> > >On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:10, Peter Houchin Sun Rentals STR Manager wrote: > >> >On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:04, Peter Houchin Sun Rentals STR Manager wrote: > >> >> hiya > >> >> > >> >> I have several scripts that send mail from web pages made in > >> >> php.. now these pages all work fine. > >> >> > >> >> now all of a sudden php has stopped sending mail and I don't know > >> >> why > >> >> > >> >> System info > >> >> > >> >> Unix box running Solaris 2.6 > >> >> apache 1.3.12 > >> >> php 4.0.4pl1 > >> >> using sendmail for the emails > >> >> > >> >> php.ini mail related line: > >> >> sendmail_path = sendmail -t -i ;for unix only, > >> >> may supply arguments as well (default is 'sendmail -t -i') > >> >> > >> >> now when I test to see the scripts php reports everything is ok > >> >> and sends back a possitive result. and that the mail has been > >> >> sent. when it hasn't > >> > > >> >I think that the positive result means that php has successfully > >> > handed the message off to sendmail or whatever; whether sendmail > >> > then succeeds is another story :-) > >> > > >> >> now I can go to the commandline and send emails no problem but > >> >> from the web pages I can't .. any suggestions would be > >> >> apreciated. > >> > > >> >My first thought would be to check the relevant log for sendmail > >> >activity, which might give a clue? > >> > >> the syslog for send mail says this though it gives me no clues > > > ><SNIP log entries> > > > >> Peter > > > >Not much traffic there :-) Try sending one from the command line, then > >one with your script and then check the log again. > > That's because its on the web server traffic ... set up to handle just > requests from our webpages ... > > ok now I've done what you said and found this out.. > > from command line it adds a entry to the syslog for sendmail > > from the web page it does not seem to add anything to the log So php is handing it off OK, but sendmail appears to be not getting/ignoring it? Any system changes or anything even minor happened around the time things stoped working. [I'm grasping at straws here a bit because I don't know how php handles the communication with sendmail] -- David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA What's another word for thesaurus?