CentOS - Jun 2005 - CentOS / BQ / PHP 4.3.9 with the mail() function

Hey everyone!

Got a little problem...with CentOS / BQ / PHP 4.3.9 with the mail() 
function

I'm able to send mail using postfix directly from the command line, 
however when I try using the mail function of php no mail is being sent. 
This simple script works on all my older Cobalt Boxs.

<? if($action=="send") {
$to      = 'me at domain.dot';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';
$headers = 'From: me at domain.dot' . "\r\n" .
  'Reply-To: me at domain.dot' . "\r\n" .
  'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

the queue looks like this....
Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19390]: j5EFljEU019390: from=<>, size=1146, 
class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19389]: j5EFljk1019389: j5EFljk2019389: 
return to sender: User unknown
Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19390]: j5EFljEW019390: from=<>, size=3858, 
class=0, nrcpts=1, 
msgid=<200506141547.j5EFljk2019389 at bq.ontarioservers.com>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19389]: j5EFljk2019389: to=postmaster, 
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32170, 
relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (j5EFljEW019390 
Message accepted for delivery)
Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19391]: j5EFljEW019390: to=admin, 
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=34070, dsn=2.0.0, 
stat=Sent


I did a some googling and found a post
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=27608

Any sujestons as what I should do .....I  dont want to play with another 
script to get this done??....thanks in advance

-- 

Best Regards, Jon McCauley

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Jon McCauley wrote:
>
> I'm able to send mail using postfix directly from the command line,
however
> when I try using the mail function of php no mail is being sent. This
simple
> script works on all my older Cobalt Boxs.
>
> <? if($action=="send") {
> $to      = 'me at domain.dot';
> $subject = 'the subject';
> $message = 'hello';
> $headers = 'From: me at domain.dot' . "\r\n" .
> 'Reply-To: me at domain.dot' . "\r\n" .
> 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
>
> mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
> ?>
>
> the queue looks like this....
> Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19390]: j5EFljEU019390: from=<>,
size=1146,
> class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
> Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19389]: j5EFljk1019389: j5EFljk2019389: return
> to sender: User unknown
> Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19390]: j5EFljEW019390: from=<>,
size=3858,
> class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200506141547.j5EFljk2019389 at
bq.ontarioservers.com>,
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
> Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19389]: j5EFljk2019389: to=postmaster, 
> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32170, relay=[127.0.0.1]
> [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (j5EFljEW019390 Message accepted for 
> delivery)
> Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19391]: j5EFljEW019390: to=admin, 
> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=34070, dsn=2.0.0, 
> stat=Sent
>
hmm, to me it looks like you did successfully send mail.
it looks like the mail was sent to postmaster.
mebbe check your aliases file to see who gets postmaster email.

try the following - using php pear and an smtp connection to localhost 
instead of trying to exec postfix and running amok of selinux.

$recipients = "maze at tcs.ii.uj.edu.pl";

$headers["From"]    = "PHP at TCS <php at
tcs.ii.uj.edu.pl>";
$headers["To"]      = "Maciej ?enczykowski <maze at
tcs.ii.uj.edu.pl>";
$headers["Subject"] = "PHP Test message subject.";

$body = "This is the test message text.";

//$params["host"] = "localhost";
//$params["port"] = "25";
//$params["auth"] = false;
//$params["username"] = "user";
//$params["password"] = "password";

include("Mail.php");
// this is coming from /usr/share/pear
// so make sure php is allowed to include files from
// there if it's in safe mode
// /etc/php.ini:
// safe_mode_include_dir = /usr/share/pear/
// include_path = ".:/php/includes:/usr/share/pear"

$mail_object =& Mail::factory("smtp", $params);
$mail_object->send($recipients, $headers, $body);

Am Di, den 14.06.2005 schrieb Jon McCauley um 18:11:
> Got a little problem...with CentOS / BQ / PHP 4.3.9 with the mail() 
> function
> 
> I'm able to send mail using postfix directly from the command line, 
Not Postfix, the log below clearly shows Sendmail activity.
> however when I try using the mail function of php no mail is being sent. 
> This simple script works on all my older Cobalt Boxs.
> 
> <? if($action=="send") {
> $to      = 'me at domain.dot';
> $subject = 'the subject';
> $message = 'hello';
> $headers = 'From: me at domain.dot' . "\r\n" .
>   'Reply-To: me at domain.dot' . "\r\n" .
>   'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
> 
> mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
> ?>
> 
> the queue looks like this....
The first log entry is missing, queue ID j5EFljEU019390.
> Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19390]: j5EFljEU019390: from=<>,
size=1146,
> class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
> Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19389]: j5EFljk1019389: j5EFljk2019389: 
> return to sender: User unknown
The reason; more to be seen in the non delivery notification ...
> Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19390]: j5EFljEW019390: from=<>,
size=3858,
> class=0, nrcpts=1, 
> msgid=<200506141547.j5EFljk2019389 at bq.ontarioservers.com>,
proto=ESMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
> Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19389]: j5EFljk2019389: to=postmaster, 
... sent to the postmaster.
> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32170, 
> relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (j5EFljEW019390 
> Message accepted for delivery)
> Jun 14 11:47:45 bq0 sendmail[19391]: j5EFljEW019390: to=admin, 
> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=34070, dsn=2.0.0, 
> stat=Sent
> 
> 
> I did a some googling and found a post
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=27608
> 
> Any sujestons as what I should do .....I  dont want to play with another 
> script to get this done??....thanks in advance
Better do as Maciej showed you and use Pear. It preserves you from
several headaches using the mail() function directly. Also get clear
which MTA you are really wanting to run; actually Sendmail seems to not
be configured properly. And finally, using Apache to speak to the MTA
directly will not work when SELinux is enabled.

Alexander


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>Better do as Maciej showed you and use Pear. It preserves you from
>several headaches using the mail() function directly. Also get clear
>which MTA you are really wanting to run; actually Sendmail seems to not
>be configured properly. And finally, using Apache to speak to the MTA
>directly will not work when SELinux is enabled.
>
>Alexander
>
>
Thanks for the posts guys ;)

I found out Sendmail >8.12 has been re-modeled to tighten msp-queue rules.

Thus, internal processes send mails will go to msp-queue 1st.
in /etc/mail/virtusrtable I removed
@your-box-fqdn error:nouser No such user here

and every thing works now with out changing the mail() function


Best Regards, Jon McCauley