Sendmail

[michaelmwilson]

When using :

<?
$to="[e-mail]";
$subject="hello";
$message="message body";

if (@mail($to,$subject,$message)){
echo "mail was sent";
}
else {
echo "mail was not sent";
}

?>

The script executes and says "mail was sent". When i check, i get no e-mail.
OS=freebsd 4.4
mailprog=sendmail.
I cannot figure out why, and cannot find any mail error messages or dead letters. Can anyone point me in the right direction to finding help?

Thanks in advance
Mike

[bealers]

on the command line try

echo "test body" | mail -s "test subject" [e-mail]

do you get the email?

[michaelmwilson]

yes i did get mail when using that code!
I have posted the server side error messages from /var/log/maillog associated with sending mail using php/web. Any help again is greatly appreciated!

sendmail[17015]: LAA17015: from=nobody, size=40, class=0, pri=40, nrcpts=0, msgid=<[e-mail]>, relay=nobody@localhost

sendmail[17015]: LAA17015: LAB17015: DSN: nobody... Recipient names must be specified

mail.local: setreuid(0, 0): Operation not permitted (r=65534, e=65534)

sendmail[17018]: LAB17015: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Service unavailable

sendmail[17018]: LAB17015: LAA17018: return to sender: Service unavailable

sendmail[17018]: Losing qfLAB17015: savemail panic

sendmail[17018]: LAB17015: SYSERR(nobody): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere: Permission denied

mail.local: setreuid(0, 0): Operation not permitted (r=65534, e=65534)

sendmail[17021]: LAA17018: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Service unavailable

[dotwebbie]

If I read that correctly (which I may not have since I am half awake and have a pounding headache . . .), you tried to send the mail to multiple recipients, yes?

[michaelmwilson]

No, i'm only trying to send to one recipient. I'm examining some issues though. First: How does the $send_to variable have to be formatted? Is it "To: [e-mail]" or just "[e-mail]". Second: Why is the setreuid operation not allowed? I think if i can find the answers to these two questions, my problem is sovled.
Thanks again everyone
~~Mike

[dotwebbie]

$send_to should not need the To:. Something that is just bugging me, perhaps it's just the setup of your system but why is the mail relaying off of
nobody@localhost? I'm not exactly familiar with *BSD so perhaps I'm barking up the wrong tree . . . Also, why is it complaining that no recipients were specified?

[KoshNaranek]

i'm a little confused..

isn't a @ in front of a command "dont check execution/returncodes - don't prompt any errors" ?

[dotwebbie]

The @ suppresses php errors and let's you use custom errors.

[Wave]

afaik, simple solution of this problem described at php.net in user contributed notes for mail() function.