Using /usr/bin/mail instead of sendmail?

[ratlhead]

Hi all,

Because of a chroot jail a web site that I'm working on is in (I don't
know much about the jail stuff), I can't use sendmail to send email
through a PHP script. The sys admin said he's put a copy of the basic
unix mail into the jail that I can use.

Now I assume I can use this by just doing a shell_exec, but for some
reason, I get no result out of it. If I run mail at command line
(without the variable names), it works great.

Can anyone suggest how I can approach this situation? Thanks!!

$output = shell_exec("echo $body | mail -s \"$subject\" $to");
print ("$output");

[Mike Blamires]

I would ask the admin (if this is possible) to adjust your PHP configuration
and change the SMTP Server setting to specify mail rather than sendmail,
this way you can address the mail server through the mail() command and
transfer your code elsewhere with less worries.

HTH
Mike
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Hi all,

Because of a chroot jail a web site that I'm working on is in (I don't
know much about the jail stuff), I can't use sendmail to send email
through a PHP script. The sys admin said he's put a copy of the basic
unix mail into the jail that I can use.

Now I assume I can use this by just doing a shell_exec, but for some
reason, I get no result out of it. If I run mail at command line
(without the variable names), it works great.

Can anyone suggest how I can approach this situation? Thanks!!

$output = shell_exec("echo $body | mail -s \"$subject\" $to");
print ("$output");