php mail() function not working

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php mail() function not working

Hi,

We've just upgraded one of our servers to a clean install of 10.5 server. We have various php applications one of which relies heavily on the php mail() function but this function isn't working. I tried writing a very simple mail script to confirm that this is actually the problem.

I can't see anything obviously wrong in php.ini or phpinfo() and the path to sendmail is correct.

Can anyone suggest what I might need to modify in order to get this working?

Thanks,

Xserve, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 31, 2008 4:19 AM

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Answer 1

Camelot

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Jul 31, 2008 10:25 PM in response to Rob Riley1

Is the mail server on this machine running?

By default, PHP is going to send mail to the local MTA for delivery. That's not running by default so your mails will just disappear into a black hole until the mail server is started.

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Rob Riley1 Author

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Aug 1, 2008 5:34 AM in response to Camelot

Solved now. We are not using Apple Mail server we are using Communigate Pro. In php.ini I had to change:

*;sendmail_path =*

to:

*;sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/CommunigatePro/sendmail -t -i*

Otherwise it used the default sendmail path which was irrelevant as the apple mail server wasn't running. I'm thinking that ideally the CGate Pro installer should have replaced the default path with a sym link. In fact I'm sure it did previously which is why we've never had this problem with other servers before.

Thanks,

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