PHP Mail() Issue?

Charles Cazabon · *nix forums Guru Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Posts: 805

alex@schnarff.com <alex@schnarff.com> wrote:

schnarff · *nix forums beginner Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 3

Hello All,

I apologize if this question has been asked before, but I've had zero
luck finding an answer, either in the archives or by regular ol'
Googling.

I have Qmail installed and functional, and Perl has zero issues writing
to /usr/bin/sendmail (which is just a symlink to
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail) with a call such as 'open(MAIL,
"|/usr/bin/sendmail -t -i");', including from scripts run by Apache.
When I run phpinfo(), sendmail_path is set to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
(though sendmail_from is blank). If I call mail() from PHP, it returns
success, and I see a message in my Qmail logs that looks like it's
almost sent the mail, but not quite:

@4000000044abc1e732265f0c info msg 20981: bytes 264 from
<alex@schnarff.com> qp 27970 uid 67
@4000000044abc1e732ac966c end msg 20981

It's as if the message makes it to Qmail, but isn't being properly
processed. Seeing as how I've even set the From: address on the return
envelope, I don't understand what I'm doing wrong here; theoretically,
this should work.

Here's the PHP that sends the mail:

$subj = "Test PHP Mail";
$body = "This is an e-mail from PHP.";
$add_headers = "From: alex@schnarff.com\r\n";
$add_params = "-falex@schnarff.com";
if (mail($_POST['email-addr'], $subj, $body,
$add_headers, $add_params)) {
...

(Note that $_POST['email-addr'] is a known-valid email address -- I'm
just sending to myself at alex@schnarff.com).

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Alex Kirk

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