Re: mail problem

>From: David Robley <huntsman@www.nisu.flinders.edu.au> >To: Peter Houchin Sun Rentals STR Manager <peterh@vfsa.com.au>, peterh@vfsa.com.au, php-general@lists.php.net, huntsman@www.nisu.flinders.edu.au >Subject: Re: [PHP] mail problem >Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:51:36 +0930 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 >X-UIDL: 87d7bf374e4397134844fc82600f8871 > >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] > Not on this server no ... yes on other servers with in the network ... inc our mail mail server .. but not on this one, having said that about 6 weeks ago we have a power outage with out our ups connect (very very bad I know but the ups was getting fixed) any way was all working good since then until about 4 days ago. I've also tried change the sendmail line in php.ini so it reads sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail -t -i ;for unix only, may supply arguments as well (default is 'sendmail -t -i') ie adding the full path for sendmail.. but still no luck..