sendmail problem

[sjyounis]

I'm having no luck sending any emails via the "mail()" command. Here's the simple code I'm using:

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

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

?>

Not only don't I get an email sent to me, but I get neither the "mail was sent" or "mail was not sent" message.

The Apache server is set up with PHP 4.2.2 with the following details for the sendmail settings:

sendmail_from | [e-mail]

sendmail_path | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

SMTP | localhost

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve Younis

[drag0n]

first of all, I would forget about doing the rror checking and just try to send the email str8 up, if that works then add error checking with "if(!mail()){echo "Nope"😉 else{echo "whatever";} or soemthing like that , but first see if you can send mail out first, also check your mail server settings, that may be a huge problem 😉

[sjyounis]

I tried doing a simple:

<?php
mail("[e-mail]", "My Subject", "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3");
?>

but still received no email.

What should I be looking for in the Mail Server settings?

Thanks for your help.

Steve

[drag0n]

hat type of mail server do you have?
also, turn error reporting to E_ALL to see exactly what the problem was

[jbond03]

if you have shell assess you can do a "mailq" command from command prompt to see if your email got quied up.

i have the same problem, my sendmail was throwing errors but i went to get some help and they told me that if the serverload is too high, the sendmail will stop functioning.