Will mail() function still work with Postfix and not Sendmail?

[Phil Latio]

I understand (perhaps wrongly) that the mail() function relies on Sendmail
being installed on the server.

However I am wanting to run Postfix and Sendmail will not be loaded.

Ideally I would have liked to have setup a seperate machine as an email
server but the machine I was about to use has suddenly developed a major
dislike for just about any memory stick I insert and therefore is not
operational.

Therefore will the mail() function still operate with Postfix running and
not Sendmail?

Cheers

Phil

[Colin McKinnon]

Phil Latio wrote:

I understand (perhaps wrongly) that the mail() function relies on Sendmail
being installed on the server.

It should work fine if you configure it as if sendmail were available
locally.

C.

[Toby A Inkster]

Phil Latio wrote:

Therefore will the mail() function still operate with Postfix running and
not Sendmail?

I use Postfix, and mail() works fine. Postfix provides a
sendmail-compatible binary at "/usr/bin/sendmail", so PHP
never even notices that sendmail is not installed. (Most
Linux/UNIX mailers do provide such a binary.)

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