sendmail

[omerie63]

I am having problems with sendmail in Fedora Core 2. My installation came with everything, so I did not have to play with anything, but it is not working.

It looks like I can can send mail but it is ot going to the destination.

<?php

$success=mail("myaddress@host.com","My Subject","Line 1\n Line 2\n Line 3\n");

if($success){
   print("Success!");
}else{
   print("Not Really!");
}

?>

and I see:


Success!



but I do not get any mail in myaddress@host.com

I am not really familiar with sendmail that much so, help me on this one.

I searched around for a few days, but haven't gotten far.

Thanks in advance!

[vinyl-junkie]

You may not have gotten mail because the sender's email address is missing. Change this:

$success=mail("myaddress@host.com","My Subject","Line 1\n Line 2\n Line 3\n");

to this:

$success=mail("myaddress@host.com","My Subject","Line 1\n Line 2\n Line 3\n","sender@domain.com");

[trogdor1024]

Don't you have to put the From: in there? Maybe not, but try this if that doesn't work...

$success=mail("myaddress@host.com","My Subject","Message Text","From: sender@domain.com");

It still may be that SMTP is not configured correctly on your server, but certainly try this first, sendmail configuration sucks!

[awulf]

yeah, it sounds like sendmail is configured wrong. it shouldn't matter whether or not you put in the "From" header in that last param or not (i think that only helps email clients not mark it as spam)...

[omerie63]

Guys thanks a lot for answering so fast, I am going to try it out!

Erion

[omerie63]

Sucks but it is true, It did not work!

Well, I installed Fedora Core 2, and I sendmail is running as a process. I am not sure what to configure. The port and the hostname were set to 25 and localhost as by default and I did not see any other thing I needed to change. The instructions on setting it up are not really clear!

[Rebort]

From what I recall, PHP's mail function will return true on successfull execution, but does not check in any fashion to see if the mail was actually sent.

Off-hand troubleshooting:

- Load up your php_info page or php.ini and see if the path to sendmail is configured correctly, and that the "-t" flag is set.
- See if you can send any mail through that server at all, outside of PHP. Try sending something using mail from the command line.

You probably don't want to fool with sendmail configurations, which are quite complicated and difficult (I got scared off the thing a long time back). Try an alternative MTA like exim (http://www.exim.org/).

[omerie63]

It turns out that google is refusing it. I remember I read some where about \r\n

Do you guys understand anything from this? What am I doing wrong!

<?php

$success=mail("erion_usa@yahoo.com","My Subject","Blah Blah", "From: [email]erion@usa@yahoo.com[/email]\n");

if($success){
   print("Success!");
}else{
   print("Not Really!");
}

?>

[omerie63]

Hi guys,

I just found out my problem. I was talking to some friends of mine and they imidiately after me showing them the email records, from the mail command, that if I did not have a domain registered, email that came out of my machine was be considered spam.
I could see in there that the messages were sent but were denied by the destination.

I learned something new, this time too!


Thanks to those who helped!