Problem with php mail function

[phpuser_2000]

Hi!

I wrote a simple script using the php mail() function.

<?
$email="[e-mail]";
$msg = "Blah Blah".
$mailheaders = "From My Website\n";

mail($email,"Blah Request", $msg,$mailheaders);

?>

But i dont seem to receive any mails.

Note: I dont reciece any error.

Coudl you suggest what is wrong ?

thanks in advance

[tsinka]

Hi,

try to change
$mailheaders = "From My Website\n";
to
$mailheaders = "From: [e-mail]\r\n";
first.

I think you don't need the \r\n part if you only have one header line.

Thomas

[phpuser_2000]

I Tried the changes you suggested still it didnt work.
I am testing it on my home machine.

but this code works fine from my work machine.

[tsinka]

Hi,

do you have Windows at home ? If yes you might need to set SMTP=localhost to a valid mail server in php.ini.

Thomas

[phpuser_2000]

Hi thomas.

I am using Linux Mandrake 9.2

thanks a lot

[tsinka]

Hi,

do you have postfix, sendmail or any other mail server installed and running ?

Thomas

[phpuser_2000]

Yes i think i have
both postfix and sendmail

but i dotn know how to configure them if that might be problem for the php mail() function?

$ rpm -q postfix
postfix-2.0.13-3mdk
$ rpm -q sendmail
sendmail-8.12.9-7mdk

[tsinka]

Hi,

which one is running ?

Thomas

[phpuser_2000]

How do i check which one is running? i never configured them and dont know how to...

Thanks

[tsinka]

Hi,

just try to start one of them with the init script or use
ps aux |grep qmgr
or
ps aux |grep sendmail

to see if postfix or sendmail is running.

Another way to test if you can send mails is to execute e.g. the following command on the shell to send a mail to a external mail account:

mail -s "Testmail" [e-mail]

Type some text and finish by <return>.<return>

Then check your inbox if any mail came in.

To check if there are sticky mails in the mail queue execute the command

sendmail -bp

(works with both postfix and sendmail)

Thomas

[phpuser_2000]

Hi Thomas!

i tried both the commands
and this is what they displayed

$ ps aux |grep sendmail
mail 1968 0.0 0.1 5344 340 ? S 12:04 0:00 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue

$ ps aux |grep qmgr
postfix 1924 0.0 0.2 4380 744 ? S 12:01 0:00 nqmgr -l -n qmgr -t fifo -u -c

and when i try to mail to external account I get this errors.

$ mail -s "somemail" [e-mail]
Cc:
send-mail: warning: My hostname localhost is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix
/main.cf
$ postdrop: warning: My hostname localhost is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname o
r mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf

thanks in advance

[tsinka]

Hi,

this might become a little bit tricky ...

In a default postfix configuration file /etc/postfix/main.cf are e.g. the following lines:

#myhostname = host.domain.tld
#myhostname = virtual.domain.tld
#mydomain = domain.tld

These must be set to a externally resolvable fqdn to be able to send mail to an external server, like

myhostname = mail.mydomain.com
mydomain = mydomain.com

But you might be able to send the mail without changing the mail server configuration by setting the sendmail_path configuration option in php.ini to the following value:

sendmail_path = "sendmail -t -i -F [e-mail] -f [e-mail]"

Set the mail addresses to valid ones then restart the server and look if it works ....

Thomas