Re: php mail() issues

On Tue, 30 May 2006 16:05:31 -0700, Michael Vilain wrote:

In article <11u9xxz5w7gx6$.ye0g6zklx2ir.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Chris <ngfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 30 May 2006 12:26:14 -0700, Michael Vilain wrote:


What's the setting for "sendmail_path" in your php.ini file?

/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

You can see the entire output here if that helps any more.

http://80.176.79.35/phpinfo.php

Thanks.

And what happens when you type

/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: test
message
^D

in a shell?

That works fine, also works if I run mail from the shell and send a mail
from in there. I think that sendmail is setup OK (but could be wrong)

If that fails, try using

/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -v -i

instead.

Do you mean from the command line or modify the setting in php.ini? I've
changed it in php.ini - still no joy I'm afraid.

I don't need any extra rpm's for my PHP installation do I? My understanding
was that all I needed was the base php for mail - I have that and php-mysql
for the database backend

I'm running php on a Macintosh, so I can't comment on your specific
setup. When you say "it doesn't work", what happens? What status does
mail("mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx","subject", "body") return? What's in your log
for sendmail traffic, where ever you have it configured? Is it just not
working from inside php or does it actually go to sendmail, then fail?
What about the http log file for touching that page?

I don't think it was even getting as far as sendmail. Nothing in the logs,
and no error codes etc were returned. In order to see if there was a
problem I uninstalled PHP and then reinstalled all the required RPM's and
libraries - it now seems to work just fine and dandy. Most bizzare - still
no idea *why* it didn't work!

Thanks for all your help and encouragement though - I was ready to revert
back to my old windows box to run this until I found the answer!

[just some SWAGs...]
.

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