Re: [PHP4BETA] mail() doesn't work : bug ?

> > > I'm not too familiar with FreeBSD's system call tracer, but try something > > > like this: > > > > > > truss -f ./php -f testscript.php 2> trace.out > > > > > > Then you can look for "exec" in strace.out and see if sendmail is > > > exec'ed > > > and what parameters it gets, or if it fails. > > > > Sorry, there's no truss on the NetBSD box I have access to (either it > > doesn't exist or root didn't install it). > > man truss -> man trace but trace doesn't seem to exist neither. > then try looking for one of : strace, ltrace, gdb How would you debug it ? Should I hard code sendmail_path or anything else in mail.c ? BTW, I extracted the following code from php-4.0b2/ext/standard/mail.c and compiled it separately. ---- mail.c ---- #include <stdio.h> void main() { FILE *sendmail; int ret; sendmail = popen("/usr/sbin/sendmail -t", "w"); if (sendmail) { fprintf(sendmail, "To: %s\n", "cahagn_o@epita.fr"); fprintf(sendmail, "Subject: %s\n", "test"); fprintf(sendmail, "\n%s\n", "test body"); ret = pclose(sendmail); } else { printf("nope\n"); } } ---- snip mail.c ---- This won't send any mail, my (temporary) solution follows below : Another thing I don't understand is popen always returns 1 even if it doesn't find sendmail (it says however "command not found") : I tried to set sendmail_path to /usr/sbin/foo and mail() returns 1. Solution, to actually send a mail successfully, I have to add the recipient right after sendmail : sendmail = popen("/usr/sbin/sendmail -t", "w"); is replaced with: sendmail = popen("/usr/sbin/sendmail cahagn_o@epita.fr", "w"); This works. It sends a mail. It also works with PHP if I set sendmail_path to "/usr/sbin/sendmail cahagn_o@epita.fr" I found this having a look at my send_mail shell script : ---- snip send.sh ---- ECHO=/bin/echo OUTFILE=/tmp/mail.test make_outfile() { ${ECHO} "Subject: test" >> ${OUTFILE} ${ECHO} "To: cahagn_o@epita.fr" >> ${OUTFILE} ${ECHO} "" >> ${OUTFILE} ${ECHO} "body" >> ${OUTFILE} ${ECHO} "" >> ${OUTFILE} } make_outfile; /usr/sbin/sendmail $(recipient) < ${OUTFILE} ---- snip send.sh ---- (The $(recipient) was filled with the address) What's wrong with this ? Does it come from /etc/sendmail.cf or an old version of sendmail (I don't know how to determine the version) ? Is this the standard way to handle sending mail with sendmail ? What can I do to have PHP mail() work ? -- Olivier Cahagne snina@ambafrance.org olivier.cahagne@epita.fr