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Qmail question... configuring php.ini

cltwebs posted this at 03:36 — 16th March 2004.

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Don't know if anyone can help me out or not?

I have a server that is using qmail on a Redhat 9 box for a while now and everything works great.

I don't have sendmail installed on my box at all.

My issue is when I try to use the php mail fuction it does not work.

I looked into my php.ini and I noticed a section for mail

Quote: [mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = [email protected]

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

So it looks as if my php.ini is still setup to use sendmail....

What is the proper synatax to use qmail?

I have tested my scripts on a server using sendmail and they work fine looks as if there is just a configuration issue with php.ini which I just don't know proper syantax to fix.

Thanks in advance.

James...

James

s0da posted this at 10:58 — 16th March 2004.

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Quote: sendmail_path
Where the sendmail program can be found, usually /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail. configure does an honest attempt of locating this one for you and set a default, but if it fails, you can set it here.

Systems not using sendmail should set this directive to the sendmail wrapper/replacement their mail system offers, if any. For example, Qmail users can normally set it to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail or /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject.

qmail-inject does not require any option to process mail correctly.

Links:
http://www.php.net/mail
http://www.qmail.org/
http://www.zend.com/manual/ref.mail.php

mairving posted this at 13:04 — 16th March 2004.

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Usually qmail would create a symlink at /usr/sbin/sendmail that goes to one of the two var locations that s0da listed above. RH has a tendency to install sendmail by default even if you tell it not to. Setting it to to proper var path should get it to work.

Mark Irving
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