What do I need to send a mail from php?

albinworld · 08-28-2009, 11:38 AM

I'm building a server from scratch (Ubuntu 8.10) and I can´t send emails from PHP (no error, but no mail sended).

I've instaled mailutils (apt-get install mailutils) which installed the following packages: exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light guile-1.8-libs libgsasl7 libmailutils1 libntlm0

Do I need anything more?

What's happending? What test can I do?

Thanks in advance,
- Albin

More info:
# mailx -s Test -t albinworld@gmail.com
Cc:
Hi Albin!
.

doesn´t crash but doesn´t send anything

# mailx -s Test -t root
Cc:
Hi Albin!
.

same behaviour.

kbp · 08-29-2009, 11:45 PM

Hi albinworld,

An easy test to start off:

'netstat -tnlp' look for something listening on port 25

example output:
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1560/master
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1503/sshd

Anything there ?

cheers

albinworld · 08-30-2009, 04:22 AM

Thanks kbp,

Yes, there is exim4 listening

Protocolo Recv-Q Send-Q Dirección Local Dirección Externa Estado PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* ESCUCHAR 27969/mysqld
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* ESCUCHAR 24668/apache2
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* ESCUCHAR 3352/proftpd: (acce
tcp 0 0 87.98.151.88:53 0.0.0.0:* ESCUCHAR 3073/named
tcp 0 0 94.23.38.163:53 0.0.0.0:* ESCUCHAR 3073/named
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* ESCUCHAR 3073/named
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* ESCUCHAR 3098/sshd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* ESCUCHAR 6746/exim4
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* ESCUCHAR 3073/named

Next suggestion? please ...

- Albin

kbp · 08-30-2009, 07:59 AM

Hey Albin,

You'll need to get exim working first going by this:

Quote:

# mailx -s Test -t albinworld@gmail.com
Cc:
Hi Albin!
.

doesn´t crash but doesn´t send anything

# mailx -s Test -t root
Cc:
Hi Albin!
.

same behaviour.

Once you have a functioning MTA you will need to check your php.ini email configuration, look for the section '[mail function]' and the settings should look something like:

SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

Reference for Exim troubleshooting:
http://wiki.exim.org/TroubleShooting

cheers,

kbp

albinworld · 08-30-2009, 10:08 AM

Thanks kbp,

Your link bring me to know swaks, then I looked at the log and I saw that the queue has messages frozen because mailing to remote domains was not supported, then I found the command 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' and then I configured exim to work as 'Internet site'.

All done.
Thanks for the inspiration.