mail() doesn't work in php

[mawdryn]

Hi all.

I have a problem sending email using the mail() function.

I am using PHP 4.3.0 with Apache 1.3.26 on a Linux system.
(I just upgraded from PHP 4.2.1 in the hope of a fix)

I set up a one line php script as a test as follows:

mail('[e-mail]', 'Test', 'Test\n');

Sendmail shows no activity, no mail sent, however my logs show the following entry.

Jan 28 00:20:48 metabelis sendmail[4020]: h0RDKmXY004020: from=nobody, size=49, class=0, nrcpts=1, relay=nobody@localhost

Mail PHP info is as follows:

Configure Command - './configure' '--with-mysql' '--with-apxs=/usr/httpd/bin/apxs'
sendmail_from - [e-mail]
sendmail_path - /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
SMTP - espace.hopto.org
smtp_port - 25

Any help appreciated.

[mawdryn]

Hello Again...

I seemed to have resolved the issue.

Was a combo of several things

Here's what I did:

added the following line to php.ini: (removed the old line)
sendmail_path="/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue/"

Changed the ownership and permissions on /var/spool/mqueue directory from
root:mail drwx.r.x.r.x
to
nobody:nobody drwxrwxrwx (don't know the security implications of this)

It would probably have been easier for me to change the mail from to something other than nobody@localhost but I can't figure out where that info is stored. php.ini shows [e-mail] ????

[jerdo]

You can send the from information to the mail() function check the manual.