note 12822 deleted from function.mail by jimw

Regarding qmail causing a qmail-inject: fatal: read-error Technical Explanation: Normally when a php script run by apache executes, it calls qmail-inject to send the mail. Because the apache webserver is spawned as the root user, the environment variable for the QMAILMFTFILE defaults to $HOME/.lists,i.e. /root/.lists in this case. During runtime, the apache webserver, however, runs as the 'nobody' user as a member of the 'nobody' group and therefore cannot traverse the directory tree to /root/.lists, thus, the apache error file shows qmail-inject: fatal: read-error when apache attempts to call /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject. The solution to the problem was to add a line to the apache startup script /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpsd to set the QMAILMFTFILE environment variable to point to a file which the nobody user has permissions to see. In this case, adding QMAILMFTFILE=/tmp/.lists to the startup script on my server solved the problem.