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By: P_Daoud	Date: 11/10/2004 00:00:00	Points: 125	Status: Answered Quality : Excellent
Hi, I have a simple problem that I can’t solve. I'm trying to send email message using the mail() function in PHP, but with no luck. I don't get any errors, but at the same time nothing is sent. I have PHP 4.3.1 on Redhat Linux 8.0 and Apache 2.0 running. I have the following parameters set sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t' I'm just using a simple mail() command. <?php $send = mail('pdaoud@yahoo.com','test','just testing'); echo $send; ?> When I run this file from a command line as any user ( php sendmail.php) everything works fine, but when I try to run it from the browser nothing happens. Any ideas?
By: VGR	Date: 11/10/2004 00:08:00		Type : Comment
don't you need at least to specify a "From: anything@yourSMTPdomain" in the headers ? (fourth parameter, missing above)

By: carchitect	Date: 11/10/2004 00:29:00		Type : Comment
no VGR that is not necessary well problem is somewhere else

By: carchitect	Date: 11/10/2004 00:32:00		Type : Comment
does it send mail when you run it thru command

By: run_faster	Date: 11/10/2004 02:48:00		Type : Comment
Does $send tell you that the email was in fact, sent? Or no? If it says its sent, and you're not getting the emails, I would check the sendmail queue, mailq is the command I believe. Most of the time, the sendmail configuration seems to be the problem.

By: lokeshv	Date: 11/10/2004 06:54:00		Type : Comment
check log of sendmail .. Lk

By: P_Daoud	Date: 11/10/2004 14:56:00		Type : Comment
Yes, when I run it from the command line the messages is sent and $send = 1. But from the browser no message is sent and $send="". It seems that it has to do with rights ... running the php sendmail.php from the command line workes for any user but from the browser (apache user) it doesn't work...

By: VGR	Date: 11/10/2004 15:51:00		Type : Answer
I bet apache is running as nobody/nobody ? does this user have access to the sendmail executable's directory ? :D

By: swarnajyothirmayi	Date: 12/10/2004 05:02:00		Type : Comment
Follow this url maybe it will be helpful <A HREF="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum13/1820.htm">http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum13/1820.htm</A>

By: zoobie	Date: 15/10/2004 09:23:00		Type : Comment
If this is a free host, the mail() function is undoubtly disabled.

By: eight17	Date: 15/10/2004 10:32:00		Type : Comment
Are you getting other errors displayed? If not, edit your php.ini or use phpinfo() and take a look at your display_errors setting. If you have it set to Off, then errors will not be printed to the browser. You may have this turned off to avoid seing errors which aren't really errors (I'm tempted on occasion), but it IS on by default.

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