Description: This article targets the "failed sending email" error on UNIX and people using PHP's mail() function (not phpBB's SMTP function) |
Author: dougk_ff7 |
Date: Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:15 am |
Type: Fix |
Keywords: email,sendmail,mail,unix |
Category: Installing/upgrading/converting |
Recently, I've been playing around with some stuff that uses mail() in PHP, and I know I've hit errors in the past when I've set phpBB to use the mail() function, and I never really figured out why each case was failing. It started when I got the real error from PHP (when another program called mail()) -- "PHP Fatal Error: Call to undefined function mail()" -- looking around for a bit, I found that there are a few things that can cause this. One is simply PHP can't find sendmail, so you need to point it in the right direction using the "sendmail_path" option in php.ini. If that fails to work, you're going to have to do a bit more work. Create a new .php file (for example, phpinfo.php), with only "<?php phpinfo() ?>" (without quotes) in it. Upload this to your server, and view it with your web browser. Look down a bit until you see "sendmail_path" -- I found if this is broken, it usually displays "-t -i" -- the default parameters it uses for sendmail, and nothing else. Ok, so that was kinda pointless. It doesn't tell us very much more. Anyway, now the real reason for creating the phpinfo() file. Please follow these steps *exactly* (or modify slightly for your setup, you'll get the idea):
That's it. Hope this helps someone out there! Good luck! |
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