sendmail help

[monarch_684]

My company has just set up a linux web server using apache so that we can use php to send mail on our local intranet. We are, however having problems setting up the send mail in the php.ini file. We already have an exchange server for our local mail. How would we set up in php.ini to use that exchange server.

[ShawnK]

There is a section in PHP.ini called Modules, under that there is a section called Mail Function, i think. It's been a while. Here's a snipp.

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = [e-mail]

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path = "C:\Documents and Settings\Shawn\Desktop\Server\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"

; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =

Of course these are my settings I have set up, you would need to replace localhose with your server and change the path to your sendmail executable.

[bradgrafelman]

Also note that PHP does not (and can not) use SMTP authentication when sending e-mails. Most servers require this (otherwise you're an open relay). The solution would be to add your webserver's IP into an exclusion list to bypass this authentication requirement.

I've done it before in Exchange, so if you have trouble getting this to work, try doing that. IIRC, it's under Protocols, SMTP, properties of SMTP Virtual server.