PHP qmail-inject: fatal: read error

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When I try to use PHP to send mail through qmail I get a "qmail-inject: fatal: read error". I have read through the list and I have seen (and tried) the following solutions:

Put /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject into php.ini
Ensured that all appropriate sendmail links exist
Also tried the permutations of sendmail, and sendmail default etc in php.ini.
Tried (temporarily!) adding apache (web-server is run under user apache, group apache) to root group (only for testing - not advisable permanent solution).
I don't have anything calling QMAILMFTFILE but I am not sure where this is called from. It doesn't show in printenv. Maybe someone could clarify this? But I tried adding QMAILMFTFILE=/tmp/.lists to my apache start-up file just in case.
Added user apache group apache in httpd.conf before modules are called.

qmail functions well on my computer but it's not the problem in any case because the e-mail never enters the mail system. The error mentioned above shows up in the Apache error-log. PHP is also performing very well in every other capacity.

There have been a number of solutions given in this list and I have tried them all but none have worked. Does someone have the definitive answer on this?

Is there a way that I can further test this?

Can I call qmail-inject directly from the application (eg. phpWebsite) and bypass the php.ini default?

I am running Mandrake Linux 8.0 with PHP 4.0.4pl1 and Apache 1.3.19.

radical_edward

I have the same setup and exactly the same problem 🙁 I had a webserver that <em>did</em> work without any tweaking on my part, but then I had to replace the hardware. I did a complete reinstall, though with the minumum of packages and services this time to improve security. Now, although I can send mail directly from the command line using /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject, and shell scripts can also send mail using /usr/bin/mail, the webserver itself apparently cannot send mail. I have amended php.ini to read:

sendmail_path = /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject

When I run a page that is supposed to send an email, the mail() function returns TRUE, but no mail is sent. The syslog entry just says:

May 28 11:13:55 <stuff> new msg 482
May 28 11:13:55 <stuff> info msg 482: bytes 408 from <email@address> qp 9095 uid 48
May 28 11:13:55 <stuff> end msg 482

[48 is the Apache user id]

Message delivery never even starts, so I'm at a loss as to how to fix it...any help MUCH appreciated!

Anon

I found that mail() returns TRUE even if the message isn't sent 🙁 In my case, the culprit was a script with a blank "To" variable - qmail couldn't deliver the mail because it had no address, but because qmail-inject had initiated successfully, the function assumed everything was OK! Lesson: always double and triple check you are creating a valid and complete message when sending mail via qmail and mail() !!!