I just want to ask is postfix easier to configure than sendmail.Looking in the system, sendmail is already installed as part of full install packages.

A have a simple php script which I use on my hosted web site, its basically a feedback form and the details get sent to my own email. It works fine on a web hosting site.

However I use XAMPP installed at /opt which I use as my testing/development environment . Basically i want to be able to test out my php mailer scripts using XAMPP running on local host; instead of keep having to load them to my web.

. I did a lot of googling and most posts(mostly about windows) seem to suggest I need to edit php.ini and sendmail.ini

I can not find sendmail.ini only files such as sendmail.cf (this says don't touch it)located /etc/mail

I edited php.ini (located at /opt/lampp/etc/php.ini)


to :

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
SMTP = localhost
; http://php.net/smtp-port
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = me@example.com

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path

;i uncomented next line and added path to sendmail
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

Looking in /var/log/maillog I got :

Feb 5 08:38:49 darkstar sendmail[3408]: r15Kcn4v003408: to=captin_sensible@gmail.com, ctladdr=nobody (99/99), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30226, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
\

Is there a fairly simple fix to the above ; how simple is postfix going to be?


cheers

Are you sure sendmail is running? Check by running:
If it's not, check if /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail is executable and then run:
Regards

no it dawned on me as I manually started up xampp with /opt/lampp/lampp start , i nearly kicked myself!

From there I decided to first try emailing from a command line to see if that worked, then if it did use that application from php.ini

which mail gives :
bash-4.2$ which mail
/usr/bin/mail

and which sendmail gives
bash-4.2$ which sendmail
/usr/bin/sendmail
bash-4.2$

it did this and on $mail ,was told there was a message in var/spool/mail/andrew

I guess the relevant section being:

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550-5.7.1 [176.248.5.40] The IP you're using to send mail is not authorized to
<<< 550-5.7.1 send email directly to our servers. Please use the SMTP relay at your
<<< 550-5.7.1 service provider instead. Learn more at
<<< 550 5.7.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/a...y?answer=10336 r10si10195621wjx.198 - gsmtp
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable


As an email client I use thunderbird, and this sends and receives emails no problem, so if I can get mail or sendmail working(whats the difference?) as well as thunderbird then I should be able to sort out email from a php script in xampp. could I use thunderbird in anyway ?I know its a gui based but must have underlying fuctionality, instead of
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

could I invoke thunderbird?

Hi,
That means that you box sent mail out to gmail, but it was rejected because google does not like your IP (FYI 176.248.5.40 is listed in some RBL datavases )


The difference is that mail is a client (like thunderbird, but it's running from CLI), while sendmail is a server. And I don't think it's reasonable to use thunderbird from a php script to send out mail.