note 98378 deleted from function.mail by danbrown

Note Submitter: ellert at nospam vankoperen dot nl ---- After trying to get mailsending to work on the 4 servers i put a new php on (5.3.2 at this time) and pulling hairs for hours, i gave up and installed Exim. Worked like a charm. This is the receipe i used: wget ftp://mirror.your mirror look it up on exim dot org /exim/ftp/exim/exim4/exim-4.72.tar.gz tar xzf exim-4.72.tar.gz cd exim-4.72 cp src/EDITME Local/Makefile cp exim_monitor/EDITME Local/eximon.conf adduser exim vi Local/Makefile find and replace EXIM_USER= to EXIM_USER=ref:exim find and replace EXIM_MONITOR=eximon.bin to #EXIM_MONITOR=eximon.bin (to disable it) find and replace HAVE_ICONV=yes to HAVE_ICONV=no (not needed for me) make make install cd /etc/alternatives rm -f mta ln -s /usr/exim/bin/exim /etc/alternatives/mta rm -f mta-sendmail ln -s /usr/exim/bin/exim /etc/alternatives/mta-sendmail ln -s /usr/exim/bin/exim /usr/sbin/exim rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail ln -s /usr/exim/bin/exim /usr/sbin/sendmail ln -s /usr/exim/configure /etc/exim.conf now test if mail lookups resolve exim -bt yourname@yourdomain.int now test if mail sending works exim -v yourname@yourdomain.int From: Servername@yourdomain.int To: yourname@yourdomain.int Subject: test test ^D should send email, though it might get blackholed. (or not, in my case!) For me that did the trick (in minutes!)