[RESOLVED] qmail/sendmail & the php.ini file

[fnp]

I need a little help here, I just switched to a vps from a shared hosting package both were on a Linux Server.

On the vps I have qmail installed and running.

My PHP Mail Function worked just fine in the SH package but with the vps it is not.

I have redirected the [mail function] in the php.ini file but it does not work.

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
;SMTP = smtp.example.com
;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 = /var/qmail/bin/sendmail -t -i

I have this line of code in my scripts

if(	mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ){
			$connection = new mysqli($h['DOST'], $u['DOST'], $p['DOST'], $d['DOST']);
			$connection->select_db($d['DOST']);
			$EnteredBy = $_SESSION['enam'];
			$SentOn = date('Y-m-d H:m:s');
			$qry="INSERT INTO tblOrderCommunications ";
			$qry.="(OrderID, EmployeeID, OCWho, OCWhat, OCWhen, Details, DateEntered, EnteredBy) ";
			$qry.="VALUES ('$OrderID', '$LastModifiedBy', 'FNP', '$EmailTemplate', '$SentOn', '".mysql_escape_string($message)."', '$SentOn', '$EnteredBy')";
			$connection->query($qry);
			$InsertedCOM=$connection->insert_id;
			$msg .= '<p>Email sent to '.$to.' and added as communication <a href="comvw.php?DBID='.$InsertedCOM.'">'.$InsertedCOM.'</a> to order <a href="ordvw.php?DBID='.$OrderID.'">'.$OrderID.'</a>.</p>';
		}
		else{
			$msg .= '<p>Email was not sent successfully.</p>';
		}

Any help would be apprciated

[bradgrafelman]

What does "it does not work" mean? What error message(s) do you get? Have you verified that "/var/qmail/bin/sendmai" is the correct path?

[fnp]

Sorry maybe I did not post everything I needed to.

I get the 'else' statement "Email was not sent successfully". Otherwise I don't get any php or sql error messages.

I have also verified that it is pointing to correct directory.

I am starting to wonder if the qmail is not configured correctly. I do now it is running in system process.

Thanks

[bradgrafelman]

fnp wrote:

Otherwise I don't get any php or sql error messages.

Then you must not have configured PHP properly to display those error messages, because if you're getting that message then that must mean that the mail() function returned FALSE, which it will do when it encounters an error. If it encounters an error, then PHP will generate an E_WARNING (I think) level error message.

So... is display_errors set to On and error_reporting set to E_ALL?

[fnp]

My error settings in the php.ini file are as follows.

error_reporting = E_ALL

I am changing it to read

error_reporting = E_ALL|E_STRICT

Maybe that will give the error.

[fnp]

Same as before, nothing changed.

[fnp]

Forgot to turn on Display errors I will try this again.

[fnp]

All right I get a whole bunch of undefined variables, but those fall under the E_STRICT error message. Also I know the variables work because I can echo them in the same script and they print exactly how they are suppose to.

Thanks FNP

[fnp]

So I solved this and just wanted to thank everybody that helped.

The actual problem was a combination of 3 things.

1. I had to reinstall qmail, it was not installed properly the first time.

2. I linked the sendmail and qmail files via command line:

   ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

3. I had to put in the line breaks for qmail.

    . "\r\n"

After those three steps everything works.

Thanks
FNP