Re: sending email (Apache Users)

I don’t think this is an Apache problem, it’s either bad PHP or problem with your esmtp configuration by the sounds of it.

Have you checked the MAN pages for your esmtp program or checked that your PHP replaces any invalid chars that could prevent emails being sent?

Have you tried to create a simple test.php page where when you browse to it, it spits out an email to a test email address without you having to enter an email address etc in a previous form.

Test.php would read:

<?php

mail(“test@xxxxxxxx”, “The Subject”, “Hello world”);

When all’s said and done though, Apache has nothing to do with sending emails, in a nutshell, it just serves webpages.

From: Lyle Wincentsen [mailto:lyle.wincentsen@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 June 2009 14:46
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: sending email

I'm trying to send an email when a user hits the submit button on a webpage, but the email never goes out. I'm using the php mail function as follows:

mail($recipient_address, $subject, $body);

It works fine for me if I send it from the php command line, but not from my web page. I use esmtp as my sendmail agent and I have put a copy of the .esmptrc file in the home directory for my web server (my web server runs as www-data and it's home directory is /var/www as listed in the /etc/passwd file). The file is readable by the www-data group.

There is nothing in /var/log that tells me anything - in fact, all the mail.x logs are empty.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

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