sendmail and php

[wolfric]

I'm trying to get sendmail to work with php but i can't even seem to get it to work on it's own. I'm logged in as root (su root). I have in php.ini:
commented out smpt and smtp port (win 32 only it says) and sendmail_from commented out

For unix only
sendmail_path=/usr/lib/sendmail

sendmail seems to be installed i can run it from bash. I try sending an email using:
sendmail example@whatever.com
message
ctrl + D

which i saw somewhere however the email doesn't seem to go through. I've also tried (after restarting apache server) to use mail() php function and that also doesn't work. Any ideas?

[naithen]

sendmail_path=/usr/lib/sendmail

Did you miss -t -i options?

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sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail -t -i

Did you make sure that /usr/lib/sendmail is actually where sendmail is?

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$ whereis sendmail
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz

Most of the time it is another MTA that provides sendmail function. On a default debian lenny installation exim4 does this. So check for your MTA is working properly.

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$ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2009-04-07 15:53 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> exim4

If all fails follow this guide; http://www.squad17.org/node/39 to relay your mail to a mail server using ssmtp.

[naithen]

Just found this as well

[lbm]

Are you sending to an external recipient?
It could be that your ISP is blocking SMTP traffic. If so you must configure the mailer daemon to use a relay server.