RE: Legit question this time (mail and PHP)

"Mike Rathburn" <[email protected]>
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That's a laughable statement (just works under Windows).

Having configured probably hundreds of LAMP instances to date, I cannot
recall sendmail (and PHP's mail()) not working out-of-the-box.  Something
was done to make it NOT work, or it may be something as goofy as the service
not running.  Can you send a message from the CLI?  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Spicer [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 4:28 PM
> To: list
> Subject: Re: Legit question this time (mail and PHP)
> 
> It wasn't letting me send any mail. I just broke down and installed
postfix, but
> now I can't figure out how to configure it to send mail through a remote
> SMTP server. Or locally, for that matter...
> 
> This is one instance where it "just works" under Windows... (Just add the
> SMTP server address to the php.ini)
> 
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Mike Rathburn <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > PHP will send out via sendmail by default on Linux.  No action required.
> > You have to actually turn it off in php.ini if you don't want to use
> > sendmail.  Look for the 'sendmail_path' directive in php.ini.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Paul Spicer [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:46 PM
> > > To: list
> > > Subject: Legit question this time (mail and PHP)
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get PHP's mail() command to work, but alas, no luck so
far.
> > > All solutions I've found require me to set my box up as an SMTP
> > > server
> > (using
> > > postfix). We already have one mail server on this network! How can I
> > > convince PHP to send email WITHOUT having to add 'mail server' to
> > > this
> > box's
> > > job requirements?
> >
> >
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