Mail() problem

acey99

ok here's my problem:

I have 2 servers, both Redhat Enterprise 4.
my script that sends mail is on server 1.

Server 1 has sendmail off & I can't turn it on (no privledges)
Server 2 has sendmail on & is a dedicated mail server, but no php.

how do I use my script on server 1 to send mail through server 2 ?

I'm hoping to still use mail() if at all possible, but I'm open to suggestions.

thanks in advance.

NogDog

I think you'd have to have Server 2 mapped as a logical drive on Server 1 via the LAN so that PHP's mail() function can call the sendmail program on the other server, and then configure the sendmail_path in your PHP configuration to point to it. Otherwise you might have to use SMTP to access your mail account on the Server 2. PHPMailer includes a SMTP class, and helps make this process a bit easier to set up.

MarkR

You should definitely just fix this at a system-level.

DO NOT try to work around sysadmin errors in software. Get your systems admins to set servers up in a way which makes life easy for you - that's what they're there for.

And NogDog, no you can't simply run sendmail from the other machine's drive, that wouldn't work.

I find it hard to believe that any production Unix box has no MTA at all installed, as other unix facilities use it to mail error logs etc.

Mark