sendmail problem

[Retired_member41]

Hi,

I was told this was idiot proof, obviously not.

I installed sendmail, unticked port and smtp in php.ini

Yet all the sample scripts to send mail do not work?

Any ideas?

server is centos and has whm on

the resolvers for the whm point at googles i think, I'm saying this as I read somewhere that this may be the problem?

Thanks in advance

 

[mrt]

Assuming you have cPanel installed (based on your mention of WHM) you probably don't want to be installing sendmail - cPanel uses the Exim mail server and both sendmail and Exim can't/shouldn't coexist on a server.

On cPanel servers, the mail() function generally sends mail via Exim and if there are any errors you may be able to find some in the logs. On a default cPanel PHP setup, the php.ini setting sendmail_path is "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" and that should be adequate to send email from scripts.

If you have root access, you might be able to log in using SSH and run "tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog" and try sending mail again - that may give you a hint as to what's happening.

If you're not too sure what you're doing I'd be happy to take a look - send me a PM.

 

[Retired_member41]

Thank you so much, I think I will give it a miss as you recommend.

Assuming you have cPanel installed (based on your mention of WHM) you probably don't want to be installing sendmail - cPanel uses the Exim mail server and both sendmail and Exim can't/shouldn't coexist on a server.

On cPanel servers, the mail() function generally sends mail via Exim and if there are any errors you may be able to find some in the logs. On a default cPanel PHP setup, the php.ini setting sendmail_path is "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" and that should be adequate to send email from scripts.

If you have root access, you might be able to log in using SSH and run "tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog" and try sending mail again - that may give you a hint as to what's happening.

If you're not too sure what you're doing I'd be happy to take a look - send me a PM.