Mail not working

[nobrow]

I cannot get php to send an email. This works:

$ mail -s "My Subject" no****@gmail.com
My Message
^D
Cc:
[enter]

But this doesnt:

<?php
mail('no****@gmail.com', 'My Subject', 'My Message')
or
die('shit!');
?>

I don't know where to look for error messages so I have no further
info. Anyone got a clue?

P.S.

Im using ssmtp, and php.ini contains:

sendmail_path =ssmtp

[ZeldorBlat]

On Jun 14, 12:22 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

I cannot get php to send an email. This works:

$ mail -s "My Subject" [e-mail]
My Message
^D
Cc:
[enter]

But this doesnt:

<?php
mail('[e-mail]', 'My Subject', 'My Message')
or
die('shit!');
?>

I don't know where to look for error messages so I have no further
info. Anyone got a clue?

P.S.

Im using ssmtp, and php.ini contains:

sendmail_path =ssmtp

What do you mean by "doesn't work?" As in you never get the mail? As
in the script dies with "shit?" As in you get an error message?

[nobrow]

On Jun 14, 5:55 pm, ZeldorBlat <[e-mail]:

On Jun 14, 12:22 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

I cannot get php to send an email. This works:

$ mail -s "My Subject" [e-mail]
My Message
^D
Cc:
[enter]

But this doesnt:

<?php
mail('[e-mail]', 'My Subject', 'My Message')
or
die('shit!');
?>

I don't know where to look for error messages so I have no further
info. Anyone got a clue?

P.S.

Im using ssmtp, and php.ini contains:

sendmail_path =ssmtp

What do you mean by "doesn't work?" As in you never get the mail? As
in the script dies with "shit?" As in you get an error message?

No email, mail function returns false, and the die clause kicks in ...

[ZeldorBlat]

On Jun 14, 1:22 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

On Jun 14, 5:55 pm, ZeldorBlat <[e-mail]:

On Jun 14, 12:22 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

I cannot get php to send an email. This works:

$ mail -s "My Subject" [e-mail]
My Message
^D
Cc:
[enter]

But this doesnt:

<?php
mail('[e-mail]', 'My Subject', 'My Message')
or
die('shit!');
?>

I don't know where to look for error messages so I have no further
info. Anyone got a clue?

P.S.

Im using ssmtp, and php.ini contains:

sendmail_path =ssmtp

What do you mean by "doesn't work?" As in you never get the mail? As
in the script dies with "shit?" As in you get an error message?

No email, mail function returns false, and the die clause kicks in ...

Turn up error_reporting and enable display_errors in php.ini. That
will give you any error messages that might be there.

[nobrow]

ZeldorBlat wrote:

On Jun 14, 1:22 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

On Jun 14, 5:55 pm, ZeldorBlat <[e-mail]:

On Jun 14, 12:22 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

I cannot get php to send an email. This works:

$ mail -s "My Subject" [e-mail]
My Message
^D
Cc:
[enter]

But this doesnt:

<?php
mail('[e-mail]', 'My Subject', 'My Message')
or
die('shit!');
?>

I don't know where to look for error messages so I have no further
info. Anyone got a clue?

P.S.

Im using ssmtp, and php.ini contains:

sendmail_path =ssmtp

What do you mean by "doesn't work?" As in you never get the mail? As
in the script dies with "shit?" As in you get an error message?

No email, mail function returns false, and the die clause kicks in ...

Turn up error_reporting and enable display_errors in php.ini. That
will give you any error messages that might be there.

Sounded like a good idea but the default values were:

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
display_errors = On

so I reckon if there are error messages theyd be displayed ... which
isnt happening.

Is there a php error/message log?

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(no****@gmail.com)

>Sounded like a good idea but the default values were:

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

On a development machine it should _always_ be

error_reporting = E_ALL

or even

error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT

Just as a side note, I can't help with your current problem.

Micha

[nobrow]

On Jun 14, 5:22 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

I cannot get php to send an email. This works:

$ mail -s "My Subject" [e-mail]
My Message
^D
Cc:
[enter]

But this doesnt:

<?php
mail('[e-mail]', 'My Subject', 'My Message')
or
die('shit!');
?>

I don't know where to look for error messages so I have no further
info. Anyone got a clue?

P.S.

Im using ssmtp, and php.ini contains:

sendmail_path =ssmtp

It works from the interactive php shell, so the conclusion is that
this is actually an apache problem, perhaps related to running in a
chroot.

[bill]

no****@gmail.com wrote:

On Jun 14, 5:22 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

>I cannot get php to send an email. This works:

$ mail -s "My Subject" [e-mail]
My Message
^D
Cc:
[enter]

But this doesnt:

<?php
mail('[e-mail]', 'My Subject', 'My Message')
or
die('shit!');
?>

I don't know where to look for error messages so I have no further
info. Anyone got a clue?

P.S.

Im using ssmtp, and php.ini contains:

sendmail_path =ssmtp

It works from the interactive php shell, so the conclusion is that
this is actually an apache problem, perhaps related to running in a
chroot.

working from the command line is invoking the shell's mail, not
PHP's mail.

[nobrow]

On Jun 15, 7:27 pm, bill <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] wrote:

On Jun 14, 5:22 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

I cannot get php to send an email. This works:

$ mail -s "My Subject" [e-mail]
My Message
^D
Cc:
[enter]

But this doesnt:

<?php
mail('[e-mail]', 'My Subject', 'My Message')
or
die('shit!');
?>

I don't know where to look for error messages so I have no further
info. Anyone got a clue?

P.S.

Im using ssmtp, and php.ini contains:

sendmail_path =ssmtp

It works from the interactive php shell, so the conclusion is that
this is actually an apache problem, perhaps related to running in a
chroot.

working from the command line is invoking the shell's mail, not
PHP's mail.

The problem was that there was no mail program in the chroot I run
Apache in. Installed one and got it working and alls fine now. Silly
oversight really.

[nobrow]

On Jun 15, 7:27 pm, bill <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] wrote:

On Jun 14, 5:22 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

I cannot get php to send an email. This works:

$ mail -s "My Subject" [e-mail]
My Message
^D
Cc:
[enter]

But this doesnt:

<?php
mail('[e-mail]', 'My Subject', 'My Message')
or
die('shit!');
?>

I don't know where to look for error messages so I have no further
info. Anyone got a clue?

P.S.

Im using ssmtp, and php.ini contains:

sendmail_path =ssmtp

It works from the interactive php shell, so the conclusion is that
this is actually an apache problem, perhaps related to running in a
chroot.

working from the command line is invoking the shell's mail, not
PHP's mail.

BTW, I was talking about it working in "the interactive php shell" ...
$ php -a ...