php_guy Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Hello all, I am trying to get PHP's mail() function to work, but it's not. I'm just using a basic mail() example that I've used on other servers -- it works fine. I've tried... 1) Setting the SMTP to the correct SMTP server in PHP ini file and using ini_set() 2) The port is correctly set to 25 3) I've set the sendmail path in PHP.INI to ; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i"). ; http://php.net/sendmail-path sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t The mail() function returns true, however it's not working! I know it's not something with my machine blocking ports because I can use Perl and it works fine Any ideas? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227992-php-mail-not-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
php_guy Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 FYI I've tried changing the sendmail configuration the following as well, to no avail sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" Same result, the code returns true, but I don't receive any email. I've tried different email addresses to see if it's a problem with my particular one (which, like I said, it shouldn't, I've used Perl to send an email fine on the same machine) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227992-php-mail-not-working/#findComment-1175654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrbnsn Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Please post the PHP code you're using to test this between tags. Ken Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227992-php-mail-not-working/#findComment-1175657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
php_guy Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 Please post the PHP code you're using to test this between tags. Ken Hi Ken Here's my code ini_set("SMTP", "mail.isp.com"); $to = "[email protected]"; $subject = "PHP Sendmail Example"; $headers = "From: The Root Monster <[email protected]>\r\n" . "Reply-To: [email protected]\r\n" . "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; $body = "This is a sample message -- Why does it take so long"; if( mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers) ) echo "success!"; else echo "nope! nope!"; I WAS able to get things working by doing apt-get install sendmail-bin apt-get install sendmail ... But the mail takes so LONG to send! Normally it takes a second tops, but this is taking close to a minute. When I say, "takes long to send" i mean the actual php page takes almost a minute to respond (the task bar says "Waiting for domain....") and the output ("success!") is not printed for about a minute. Any idea what it could be that's taking so long? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227992-php-mail-not-working/#findComment-1175666 Share on other sites More sharing options...
php_guy Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 I just tried sendmail alone on the command line: sendmail -v [email protected] < test.mail Where test.mail is Subject: test mail Some test And it still takes long... maybe the problem is with my sendmail itself? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227992-php-mail-not-working/#findComment-1175681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
php_guy Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 I'm not sure if you're familiar with Perl... But this perl code -- on the same machine -- takes about a second to send.... compared to the PHP code and sendmail command line which take forever #!/usr/bin/perl -T #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw use strict; use CGI; use Mail::Sendmail; my %mail = ( To => "me\@domain.com", From => "The Perl Agent <perl\@domain.com>", Subject => "Perl Mail", Message => "Just the message body", smtp => 'mail.isp.com', 'Content-Type' => 'text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' ); sendmail(%mail); # or die $Mail::Sendmail::error; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<html><body>"; print "OK. Log says:\n", $Mail::Sendmail::log; print "</body></html>"; Presumably they use the same method to send mail, no? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227992-php-mail-not-working/#findComment-1175687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
php_guy Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 Well, I just read that Perl's Mail function (at least the one that I used) does not use sendmail Does Mail::Sendmail need a command-line sendmail? No. It communicates directly with any local or remote SMTP server using only Perl sockets. This was actually it's primary "raison d'être". Source: http://alma.ch/perl/Mail-Sendmail-FAQ.html That explains why it works on Perl. I mean, I could always use PHP's PEAR or another Mail api thta does not use sendmail, but I would rather try to get sendmail to work... At this point, it seems to be a problem with sendmail, since sendmail at the command line does not work. Has anyone run into this before? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227992-php-mail-not-working/#findComment-1175696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
php_guy Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 Hey guys, I've been trying a lot of things, and finally got it to work.... I'll try and remember what I did in case anyone runs into this in the future: First, I'm running debian so it was recommended to use exim instead of sendmail explicitly... So I did apt-get install exim4-base. I think this must have replaced the symbolic link for /usr/sbin/sendmail to exim after I did this. Anyway, I tried to run my PHP page agian. No luck Then I tried to run sendmail directly from the command line and I got the error: "Mailing to remote domains not supported " So I googled that error and found someone else had a similar problem here: http://himerus.com/blog/himerus/mailing-remote-domains-not-supported-debian-lenny I had to run: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and choose "internet site; mail is sent and received directly using SMTP". I took the defaults for the other settings. This is also explained here: http://www.electrictoolbox.com/changing-exim4-settings-debian-5-lenny/ Whew! What an epic journey and I hope this is solved... I will continue to test Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227992-php-mail-not-working/#findComment-1175701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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