Re: mail() sendmail problems

Elijah A. Chancey wrote:

The command mail works perfectly. What sorts of php things can I investigate? e On Feb 23, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Chris Hewitt wrote:

Elijah A. Chancey wrote:

Can a normal user send mail via which means? e On Feb 23, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Chris Hewitt wrote:

Elijah A. Chancey wrote:

I'm having difficulty with the php mail() function. Freebsd 4.9, apache 2.0.48, php 4.3.4 Here is my code: <?php mail("sysadmin@netlinkip.com", "subject", "body"); ?> The problem: The mail is not being delivered to my address. PHP returns no errors.

Can a normal user send email? If so then it is a php problem, if not a sendmail one. I think that will help to narrow it down a bit. HTH Chris

Yes, all users on a unix box should be able to send email. From a prompt: mail -s "mysubject" toyou@yourbox.com <filewithmessage will do it. Do a "man mail" for more information. It will use whatever email system you have set up on the computer, thus it is a good test to see where email may be going wrong. When you have email going from a normal user OK then its time to check from php again. HTH Chris

(Lets do the conventional bottom posting and keep this on the list).

You can check in php.ini for the "sendmail_path" option being uncommented, and set to something suitable, commonly: sendmail_path = /usr/bin/sendmail -t -i You could also just check by pointing a browser at a phpinfo() file that the php.ini that you are checking is where PHP is looking for it. I have not used the newer sendmails with submit.mc, I use sendmail here but all emails are sent to my ISP's email server which I have configured as the smart_host. This is not likely to be a problem for you as an ordinary user can send email. I don't use the inbuilt mail command in PHP, but a more flexible wrapper class from php-classes.org so I can only assume that your PHP mail command syntax is OK. Other than the above, I can't think of anything to go wrong. HTH Chris PS I've got to go now, be around in the morning.