can't get php mail() working on Ubuntu desktop version with sendmail and postfix
- by EricP
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 LAMP and trying to do a simple email test with PHP and I'm not getting any emails sent.
mail("[email protected]", "eric-linux test", "test") or die("can't send mail");
I get no errors from PHP when running that script.
In my php.ini file is:
sendmail_path = /usr/lib/sendmail -t -i
$ sudo ps aux | grep sendmail
eric 2486 0.0 0.4 8368 2344 pts/0 T 14:52 0:00 sendmail -s “Hello world” [email protected]
eric 8747 0.0 0.3 5692 1616 pts/2 T 16:18 0:00 sendmail
eric 8749 0.0 0.3 5692 1636 pts/2 T 16:18 0:00 sendmail start
eric 9190 0.0 0.3 5692 1636 pts/2 T 19:12 0:00 sendmail start
eric 9192 0.0 0.3 5692 1616 pts/2 T 19:12 0:00 sendmail
eric 9425 0.0 0.3 5692 1620 pts/1 T 19:37 0:00 sendmail
eric 9427 0.0 0.3 6584 1636 pts/1 T 19:37 0:00 sendmail restart
eric 9429 0.0 0.3 5692 1636 pts/1 T 19:38 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail restart
eric 9432 0.0 0.1 3040 804 pts/1 R+ 19:38 0:00 grep --color=auto sendmail
When I run $ sendmail start it just hangs there doing nothing.
I installed postfix also to see if it would help, but it didn't.
I tried to see port 25:
eric@eric-linux:~$ telnet localhost 25
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 eric-linux ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
thanks
