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I'm trying to figure out why the mail function in PHP fails when called via web browser (i.e. apache), but I can run the same script from the command line using
php -f mailtest.php
This is one of my client's Fedora servers, so I don't grok it completely, but I do have root access should I need to change anything.
from php.ini:
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
Not sure if this could matter, but /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/mta, which is a symlink back to /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail. FWIW the apache user does have permission to run sendmail (tested sendmail directly from the command line).
OS: Fedora Core 7 Linux (kernel 2.6.23.17)
Apache: 2.2.8
PHP: 5.2.6
Any help here will be greatly appreciated!
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If it's still not working: change the sender ($sender) to a local email (use the same email as used for recipient). Upload the modified php file and retry. Contact your provider if it still does not work. Tell your provider that the standard php "mail()" function returns TRUE, but not mail will be sent.
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Unless you mean delivering mail to the webmaster, it doesn't make sense for the webmaster to configure things. You're asking the wrong question - there is nothing wrong with the mail() function in PHP - it's not unreliable. The problem is contents and distribution of your mails.
Php uses by default, the local mail-server. However you can specify this in your php. ini configuration file.
I found the problem. SELinux was preventing apache from being able to use sendmail. To diagnose, I used
$ sestatus -b | grep sendmail
httpd_can_sendmail off
Then to actually fix the problem:
$ restorecon /usr/sbin/sendmail
$ setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail 1
Read more about it here.
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