PHP sendmail

[pkonstan]

In the Knowledge base article (http://kb.swsoft.com/article_22_1395_en.html), it says one of the issues with PHP not sending mail relates to the wrapper and symbolic links.

- When mail is sent from PHP script, PHP
usually uses 'sendmail' binary. Plesk has it's own sendmail wrapper, so
/usr/sbin/sendmail should be symbolic link which points to "$QMAIL_ROOT_D/bin/sendmail", please check it.

How do I check if it is a symbolic link and what would I do to create one if it is not?

 

[Jllynch]

run this command
ls -alh /usr/sbin/sendmail

and you should get output like this. (The arrow shows a symlink)

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Apr 19 10:34 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail

 

[JohnFish]

You will probably have to move /usr/sbin/sendmail first:

mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /tmp/sendmail

To make a symlink:

ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

 

[TellUsMore]

same problem

I'm having probably the same problem. Not sure what the above means however i get this as my result

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 12 03:36 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/ mta

/etc/alternatives/ mta really doesn't sound good to me. Then again I have no clue what i'm doing... So is plesk the culprit here? linux? something in a .htaccess file?

working perfectly to not at all just doesn't seem right to me.

 

[artisticdigital]

I am having the exact same problem and this is getting tiresome. The /etc/alternatives/mta is another sym link to qmail

 

[pkonstan]

Prior to getting any replies on this site, my research on the Web and the Plesk site, led me down this path that worked.

I found these first two steps from an article I found in the Plesk Knowledge Base. http://kb.swsoft.com/article_22_144_en.html

1) 127.0.0.0/8 network is added to white list in Plesk CP (Server-> Mail -> White List)

2) Make sure that /usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail are a
symbolic links to Plesk sendmail binary (/var/qmail/bin/sendmail).

When I got to the second step, I did the following:

1. Log in as ROOT to your server and do the following:
2. Issue these root commands:
a. cd /usr/sbin (this changes to the directory)
b. readlink sendmail (this displays where the symbolic link points.)
> In my case it was pointing to: /etc/alternatives/mta/sendmail
> That is good.
c. cd /usr/lib (change to next directory)
d. readlink sendmail (again, show where it points).
> In my case, nothing displayed because the file/link did not exist.
> I then ran the command to create a symbolic link
> ln -s /etc/alternatives/mta sendmail
> Now when I use readlink sendmail it gives me this symbolic link
3. That was it… My sendmail from within PHP now worked.

 

[TellUsMore]

nope

ok

1) 127.0.0.0/8 network is added to white list in Plesk CP (Server-> Mail -> White List)

2) Make sure that /usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail are a
symbolic links to Plesk sendmail binary (/var/qmail/bin/sendmail).

step 1 was done, step 2 i did need to add the symbolic link "sendmail" to /usr/lib

restarted it, still is not working

it has been suggested to reinstall qmail as the php install messes it up. I being less than novice at this with hundreds of domains at stake would rather avoid this. My linux guy just wrecked his bike, poor guy, he's going to live, i don't have many other details.

anyone else?

 

[TellUsMore]

Solution!!

Everyone...

i gave up on the linux side and decided this was possibly a mail header issue and i was right.

putenv ("QMAILUSER=USER");
putenv ("QMAILNAME=FULL_USER_NAME");
putenv ("QMAILHOST=DOMAIN");
$headers = "From: name <email>\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: name <email>\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii\r\n";

$to="emails";
$subject = "Testing email";
$body = "test";
$err = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

this works for everything!

http://kb.swsoft.com/article_51_1251_en.html

is where i got the header code from. I modified it a bit.

on a side note, i NEVER contribute to forums in a constructive way, this would be the first solution i've come up with to date.

I hope this saves some of you some hair...