On April 27, 2004 08:56 pm, bogi wrote: > Hi Nick. > you can tell php where sendmail is. As a matter of fact it does not even > needs to be (sendmail) you could use ANY smtp server. Just tell php, using > php.ini where the binary or the link to the binary is.
Yup did that... > Because you are (in > this case) not a qualified (MX) for your domain. You can not (emit) email > from your box, and hope anyone will accept it. So you need to configure > your smtp server to relay your locally generated e-mail (using php in this > case) to your isp's mail server. Ok, have to do some reading...probably try qmail. > Alternatively, you may want to go ahead > and tell php, that the mail server (sendmail) is actually the URL of your > isp's mail server, and let php send the mail directly to that one. if I do sendmail = "shawmail.cg.shawcable.net" in php.ini it says command not found in the apache log. > Now you > also need to make sure that the necessary ports are open on your firewall, > and traffic will be able to pass through the firewall. outbound traffic shouldnt be an issue. > Cheers > Szemir > > On April 27, 2004 08:13, Nick W wrote: > > I'm having problems with the mail() function in PHP. I don't think its my > > code causing the issue. I tried running it and it quickly returned a > > failure. Then I RTFM and realised I needed sendmail installed. Thats > > where my fun began. Sendmail was blocked (we're talking emerge here) by > > the virtual MTA package. So I killed that from the sendmail ebuild rather > > than unmerging ssmtp. Got sendmail installed, and put the path in php.ini > > (with the reccomended switches), then restarted apache2. > > > > Now instead of returning an immediate failure it sits there for like 20 > > seconds then fails but the mail() function never says why, just 1 or 0. > > Anyone with insight? Im a sendmail n00b in every sense of the term. > > > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca -- Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: foolish_gambit ICQ: 303276221 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
