Re: [ptxdist] PTXdist PHP5 CLI mail()

[Dennis.Herbrich@hytera.de]

dave_festing@hotmail.com wrote:

>  Have been struggling with trying to get PHP's mail() to work [...]
> Appreciate any suggestions as to the apparently fundamental mistake
> I am making.

The fundamental mistake is not checking the debug log output to find the
real reason *why* the call to mail() fails. Crank up the log level for 
PHP,
and see what it tells you. You might be having no sendmail binary in the
expected path, or some other file system permission problem that prevents
mail() to do it's job.

What you may not know is that PHP's mail() function usually uses an
external binary ("/usr/bin/sendmail") to drop the mail into the locally
running, completely independent MTA. This obviously allows for many things
to go wrong on the way. Check the PHP debug log, then the MTA's logs if
delivery somehow fails.

No MTA running locally? Try using PHP's SMTP features directly with a 
remote
MTA instead, or install a simple forwarding MTA, depending on your
requirements.

In either case, this is much more of a PHP/MTA configuration issue,
and likely nothing ptxdist-specific.

Best regards,
  Dennis

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