can't send a mail

[Sam Hou]

Dear all,
I don't know where my problem is. Hopefully someone can give me
some hint to explore the problem more. I am running Apache 2.0.48
wih PHP 4.3.4. The apache is running as nobody. I want to use the
mail() to send out the email from a web page but it can't work. The
web server is on the red hat linux 9.0 with rpm sendmail-8.12.8-9.90
and sendmail-cf.
In the begining, I got the error message, 'SYSERR(nobody) can not
write to queue directory /var/spool/clientmqueue/ when I use the
mail(). I kind of make some progress if not worse to follow the
sendmail/SECURITY. I don't see the error message above anymore.
However, the mail does not go out. Here is what I get in maillog now.
Dec 9 20:48:32 flash sendmail[7859]: hBA1mWr6007859: from=nobody,
size=112, class=0, nrcpts=0,
msgid=<20031210 0148.hBA1mWr600 7859@flash.nind s.nih.gov>,
relay=nobody@lo calhost

I can use sendmail "address" to send out the email from my personal
accout. Any one help?

[Guest]

Re: can't send a mail


"Sam Hou" <ssmilemonkey@h otmail.com> wrote in message
news:5a3b225f.0 312101120.67626 872@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> Dear all,
> I don't know where my problem is. Hopefully someone can give me
> some hint to explore the problem more. I am running Apache 2.0.48
> wih PHP 4.3.4. The apache is running as nobody. I want to use the
> mail() to send out the email from a web page but it can't work. The
> web server is on the red hat linux 9.0 with rpm sendmail-8.12.8-9.90
> and sendmail-cf.
> In the begining, I got the error message, 'SYSERR(nobody) can not
> write to queue directory /var/spool/clientmqueue/ when I use the
> mail(). I kind of make some progress if not worse to follow the
> sendmail/SECURITY. I don't see the error message above anymore.
> However, the mail does not go out. Here is what I get in maillog now.
> Dec 9 20:48:32 flash sendmail[7859]: hBA1mWr6007859: from=nobody,
> size=112, class=0, nrcpts=0,
> msgid=<20031210 0148.hBA1mWr600 7859@flash.nind s.nih.gov>,
> relay=nobody@lo calhost
>
> I can use sendmail "address" to send out the email from my personal
> accout. Any one help?[/color]

That is odd.

if you can execute sendmail from a prompt like "sendmail
anybody@anwhere .com" , there isn't much else to it. Forget all the
sendmail/SECURITY stuff - your problem is in PHP

One thing that looks odd is your from=nobody entry in your maillog.
What does your php_info() look like for mail configs ?
Also, try overriding the FROM with headers

<?
$headers = "From: xyzzy <xyzzy@somewher e.com>\r \n";
$headers .= "Bcc: Someone Else <someoneelse@so mewhere.com>\r \n";
$subject = "Testing";
$msg = "this is test";
$to = somebody@somewh ere.com;
$mailResult = mail($to,$subje ct,$msg,$header s);
?>

[Manuel Lemos]

Re: can't send a mail

Hello,

On 12/10/2003 05:20 PM, Sam Hou wrote:[color=blue]
> Dear all,
> I don't know where my problem is. Hopefully someone can give me
> some hint to explore the problem more. I am running Apache 2.0.48
> wih PHP 4.3.4. The apache is running as nobody. I want to use the
> mail() to send out the email from a web page but it can't work. The
> web server is on the red hat linux 9.0 with rpm sendmail-8.12.8-9.90
> and sendmail-cf.
> In the begining, I got the error message, 'SYSERR(nobody) can not
> write to queue directory /var/spool/clientmqueue/ when I use the
> mail(). I kind of make some progress if not worse to follow the
> sendmail/SECURITY. I don't see the error message above anymore.
> However, the mail does not go out. Here is what I get in maillog now.
> Dec 9 20:48:32 flash sendmail[7859]: hBA1mWr6007859: from=nobody,
> size=112, class=0, nrcpts=0,
> msgid=<20031210 0148.hBA1mWr600 7859@flash.nind s.nih.gov>,
> relay=nobody@lo calhost
>
> I can use sendmail "address" to send out the email from my personal
> accout. Any one help?[/color]

I think you need to set the Return-Path address to a valid address. You
can do that with mail() 5th parameter or try this class setting the
Return-Path header to whatever is your To: address. Take a look at the
examples:

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage

--

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP
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