 Help! mail() isn't working... [message #7335] |
Mon, 18 November 2002 18:36  |
Olliver
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Sorry for this title, but I'm really getting desperate here. I try to verify a contact mailer script but it fails to send any mails. Output claims:
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Warning: mail() is not supported in this PHP build in /home/httpd/www-root/mambo/emailfriend/emailarticle.php on line 139
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The only thing the script is doing is using mail(), nothing more. PHP version is 4.24-dev (stable branch) running as module on apache 1.3.27. There are no explicit compile options for using mail functionality nor am I aware of configuration errors in my php.ini.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Olliver
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| Re: Help! mail() isn't working... [message #7337 is a reply to message #7335] |
Mon, 18 November 2002 18:43  |
Ilia
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PHP's mail() function is dependant on sendmail being detected during install. If no sendmail binary (or symlink to equivalent utility, qmail for example) is found mail() will NOT be avaliable.
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| Re: Help! mail() isn't working... [message #7343 is a reply to message #7342] |
Mon, 18 November 2002 21:28 |
Ilia
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what does: function_exists("mail") return?
I suspect it returns false, meaning that the mail() function is not avaliable. When you ran ./configure of PHP, was sendmail in the PATH, it was not it probably explains why you don't have mail() function.
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| Re: Help! mail() isn't working... [message #7347 is a reply to message #7343] |
Mon, 18 November 2002 22:28 |
Olliver
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Hi,
I made the following test:
<?PHP if(function_exists("mail")) echo "it's there"; ?>
It keeps claiming it would be there. Speaking of paths: I compiled PHP as unpriviliged user. since the path is in /usr/sbin/ it's not available for me but for all other users with root privileges. Could this be the reason? Hm, although I hate compiling as root I should try it to see if something changes.
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| Re: Help! mail() isn't working... [message #7348 is a reply to message #7347] |
Mon, 18 November 2002 22:36 |
Ilia
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You can just add /usr/bin to your $PATH enviroment variable that should be enough.
If the function mail() is avaliable you should be able to use it...
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