RE: [PHP-GENERAL] going to try one more time about mail problems

I have done so, I have tried an example as simple as: mail( "wizaerd@wizaerd.com", "Test", "Test Message" ); and mail( "wizaerd@wizaerd.com", "Test", "Test Message", "From: jsheble@zanova.com" ); > -----Original Message----- > From: Liz Kimber [mailto:liz@xcalibur.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 7:52 AM > To: Wizaerd > Cc: General PHP LIst > Subject: RE: [PHP-GENERAL] going to try one more time about mail > problems > > > I know its hard when you have worked long and hard on stuff and its still > not working.. But grouching at people will only mean they dont > help. Try to > remember. > > I'd go with what someone has already said they did which was > remove the last > \ns from the end of your header, have none there at all.. > > Such as > > $mailHeader = "From: me@somepc.com"; > > Im sure its sending a blank line. (if you look in /var/spool/mqueue you > should see the files and be able to look at the headers) > > Liz > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wizaerd [mailto:wizaerd@wizaerd.com] > > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 15:43 > > To: Liz Kimber > > Cc: General PHP LIst > > Subject: RE: [PHP-GENERAL] going to try one more time about mail > > problems > > > > > > The portion under the asterisks was going to be my original > response, but > > then I decided it sounded too flippant and arrogant. It's just that my > > level of frustration has been real regarding this issue since I have not > > gotten any closer, and the majority of responses I get are all the same > > thing... > > > > Anyways, I tried: > > > > // mail test - doesn't work > > $mailTo = "wizaerd@wizaerd.com\n"; > > $mailSubject = "Testing EMail\n"; > > $mailBody = "This is a test from mail()\n"; > > $mailHeader = "From: jsheble@zanova.com\n"; > > > > mail( $mailTo, $mailSubject, $mailBody, $mailHeader ); > > > > > > > > $mailBody = "This is a test from popen()\n"; > > > > // secondary mail test - does work > > $MP = "/usr/lib/sendmail -t "; > > $fd = popen($MP,"w"); > > fputs($fd, "To: " . $mailTo ); > > fputs($fd, $mailHeader ); > > fputs($fd, "Subject: " . $mailSubject ); > > fputs($fd, $mailBody ); > > pclose($fd); > > > > Notice the first and second methods use the same variables. The only > > difference is that the popen function adds the To: and Subject: > > in the text > > because the mail function does that internally (otherwise all > the examples > > of mail() I've seen on the internet and in books are wrong > because they're > > never included when using mail()). > > > > Here are the lines from the /var/log/maillog after trying these > > two examples > > (I tried it twice): > > Jun 1 07:37:06 belgarath sendmail[4017]: HAA04017: > from=nobody, size=92, > > class=0, pri=92, nrcpts=0, > > msgid=<200006011437.HAA04017@belgarath.sorcery>, > > relay=nobody@localhost > > Jun 1 07:37:06 belgarath sendmail[4018]: HAA04018: > from=nobody, size=87, > > class=0, pri=30087, nrcpts=1, > > msgid=<200006011437.HAA04018@belgarath.sorcery>, relay=nobody@localhost > > Jun 1 07:37:08 belgarath sendmail[4020]: HAA04018: > > to=wizaerd@wizaerd.com, > > ctladdr=nobody (99/99), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=esmtp, > > relay=mail1.itool.com. [207.113.118.44], stat=Sent (Message received > > successfully) > > Jun 1 07:38:12 belgarath sendmail[4027]: HAA04027: > from=nobody, size=104, > > class=0, pri=104, nrcpts=0, > > msgid=<200006011438.HAA04027@belgarath.sorcery>, > > relay=nobody@localhost > > Jun 1 07:38:12 belgarath sendmail[4028]: HAA04028: > from=nobody, size=100, > > class=0, pri=30100, nrcpts=1, > > msgid=<200006011438.HAA04028@belgarath.sorcery>, relay=nobody@localhost > > Jun 1 07:38:15 belgarath sendmail[4030]: HAA04028: > > to=wizaerd@wizaerd.com, > > ctladdr=nobody (99/99), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:03, mailer=esmtp, > > relay=mail1.itool.com. [207.113.118.44], stat=Sent (Message received > > successfully) > > > > > > ************************************************************************ > > ************************************************************************ > > I'm not quite sure what you're advising here. The From, Reply-To and > > X-Mailer sections of this email are already exactly the same. The To > > portion does not have a newline on it because the mail function > claims it > > doesn't require one (but just for that sake of argument, I > tried adding it > > with zero results). Also for the sake of argument, others have > said they > > took this code precisely as it's listed here, and plugged it into > > their own > > PHP scripts and the mail() portion worked. I have tried sending > > mail using > > simpler examples, with no additional header information, lots of > > additional > > information, variables, literals, and the results have always > > been the same. > > The mail() will not send email. So again it points to my > > configuration. At > > this point, I'm merely looking for an explanation as to why one method > > works, the other does not. How can it be a configuration problem if the > > command line method and the popen method work? > > > > > > > > You never replied to my mail to you asking you to try something.. > > > > > > What happens when you set the mail style part to be exactly the > > > same as the > > > fputs version? > > > > > > Your logs show that its trying to send stuff, but not what > > > happens with it. > > > Thats the From Nobody bit.. its not picking up the right stuff. > > > > > > Also, try removing the last \n from the header section as it could be > > > putting a blank line in the wrong place in the headers and > > > upsetting it all. > > > > > > liz > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Wizaerd [mailto:wizaerd@wizaerd.com] > > > > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 15:07 > > > > To: General PHP LIst > > > > Subject: [PHP-GENERAL] going to try one more time about > mail problems > > > > > > > > > > > > I have asked this several times and while there have been > some cursory > > > > answers, there's been nothing replied or answered that has either > > > > explained > > > > this or fixed this. Before you read on though, here are a couple > > > > of answers > > > > I'll give outright since they are the only questions everybody asks > > > > imeediately. > > > > > > > > 1) Yes, the sendmail_path in php.ini has been properly setup. > > > > 2) I have included log entries at the bottom of this email and > > > some brief > > > > explanations of what I think occurred. > > > > > > > > I can successfully send emails from the command line using > sendmail. I > > > > however cannot send emails using PHP's (version 4) mail() > > function. It > > > > doesn't send any mail if I use this code. > > > > > > > > $mailTo = "wizaerd@wizaerd.com"; > > > > $mailSubject = "Testing EMail"; > > > > $mailBody = "This is a test of the EMail system from a PHP > script\n"; > > > > $mailBody .= "PHP Version " . phpversion(); > > > > $mailHeader = "From: jsheble@zanova.com\n"; > > > > $mailHeader .= "Reply-To: jsheble@zanova.comn\n"; > > > > $mailHeader .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() . "\n\n"; > > > > mail( $mailTo, $mailSubject, $mailBody, $mailHeader ); > > > > > > > > However, if I use this code it does work: > > > > > > > > $MP = "/usr/lib/sendmail -t "; > > > > $fd = popen($MP,"w"); > > > > fputs($fd, "To: wizaerd@wizaerd.com\n"); > > > > fputs($fd, "From: jsheble@zanova.com\n"); > > > > fputs($fd, "Reply-To: jsheble@zanova.com\n"); > > > > fputs($fd, "Subject: Test EMail\n"); > > > > fputs($fd, "X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion()."\n\n"); > > > > fputs($fd, "This is a test\n"); > > > > pclose($fd); > > > > > > > > If the one section of code works and the other does not, not > > to mention > > > > sending mail from the command line works, then most likely > it is not a > > > > sendmail configuration problem. I have nbeen told that the second > > > > method is > > > > all that sendmail really does behind the scenes for the mail() > > > > anyways, but > > > > I was also told that the second approach would be more > intensive (CPU > > > > cycles, memory footprints, etc... I dunno why, I just know > > > what I've been > > > > told). > > > > > > > > Her are the entries from my /var/log/maillog, and I'm afraid it > > > > has not been > > > > very useful to me at all, perhpas someone here can more more > > > sense of it: > > > > > > > > The entries that have 'to=wizaerd@wizaerd.com' entry in the > > log are ones > > > > I've sent from the command line. The ones with 'from=nobody' > > > are the ones > > > > that were tried using a PHP script (the one whose code I > included that > > > > didn't work) and the ones with 'from=root' were sent with the > > > > popen function > > > > (the code I included that did go through). It looks like it > would be a > > > > configuration problem, but if it were, then the command line > > wouldn't be > > > > working either, right? Nor would the code using the popen method. > > > > > > > > May 29 22:41:15 belgarath sendmail[461]: starting daemon (8.9.3): > > > > SMTP+queueing@01:00:00 > > > > May 29 22:41:37 belgarath sendmail[579]: WAA00579: > from=root, size=21, > > > > class=0, pri=30021, nrcpts=1, > > > > msgid=<200005300541.WAA00579@belgarath.sorcery>, > relay=root@localhost > > > > May 29 22:41:37 belgarath sendmail[579]: WAA00579: > > > to=wizaerd@wizaerd.com, > > > > delay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, stat=queued > > > > May 29 22:41:42 belgarath sendmail[580]: WAA00579: > > > to=wizaerd@wizaerd.com, > > > > ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=smtp, > > > > relay=mail1.itool.com. [207.113.118.44], stat=Sent (Message received > > > > successfully) > > > > May 29 22:43:00 belgarath sendmail[586]: WAA00586: from=nobody, > > > > size=135,class=0, pri=135, nrcpts=0, > > > > msgid=<200005300543.WAA00586@belgarath.sorcery>, > > relay=nobody@localhost > > > > May 29 23:01:54 belgarath sendmail[695]: XAA00695: from=nobody, > > > size=163, > > > > class=0, pri=163, nrcpts=0, > > > > msgid=<200005300601.XAA00695@belgarath.sorcery>, > > > > relay=nobody@localhost > > > > May 29 23:02:29 belgarath sendmail[701]: XAA00701: from=nobody, > > > size=163, > > > > class=0, pri=163, nrcpts=0, > > > > msgid=<200005300602.XAA00701@belgarath.sorcery>, > > > > relay=nobody@localhost > > > > May 29 23:03:01 belgarath sendmail[707]: XAA00707: from=nobody, > > > size=163, > > > > class=0, pri=163, nrcpts=0, > > > > msgid=<200005300603.XAA00707@belgarath.sorcery>, > > > > relay=nobody@localhost > > > > May 29 23:05:27 belgarath sendmail[720]: XAA00720: from=nobody, > > > size=163, > > > > class=0, pri=163, nrcpts=0, > > > > msgid=<200005300605.XAA00720@belgarath.sorcery>, > > > > relay=nobody@localhost > > > > > > > > I'm afraid that if I do not get this rectified, I am going > to have to > > > > abandon PHP on this project or even this project altogether. > > > > > > > > Thanx > > > > Joseph (Joe) Sheble > > > > a.k.a. 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