Sendmail not sending WAS email app i can use

jim lawrence fedorajim at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 12:23:09 UTC 2005


On 4/24/05, jim lawrence <fedorajim at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/24/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> > Am So, den 24.04.2005 schrieb jim lawrence um 18:48:
> >
> > > > the set enforce 0   didn't make a difference
> > > Tried the above still nothing
> > >
> > > if my php script is executing where are the messages being sent? or logged?
> >
> > > Jim Lawrence
> >
> > /var/log/maillog is the log file Sendmail is logging into. "mailq -v"
> > may show messages queued because of trouble sending them out?
> > As SELinux isn't actually what is stopping you, you should make use of
> > PHP's error reporting to see where you made faults in scripting.
> >
> > Alexander
> >
> > --
> > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773
> > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html
> > Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC2smp
> > Serendipity 18:59:41 up 12 days, 15:40, load average: 0.21, 0.30, 0.26
> >
> >
> >
> 01:09 PM[jim at jimsdesktop ~]$ sudo mailq -v
> /var/spool/mqueue is empty
>                 Total requests: 0
> 01:09 PM[jim at jimsdesktop ~]$
> 
> The script is a generic one
> ************************************************* Start
> Script**************************
>  <?php
> 
> // your email address
> $youremail = "myemailaddress";
> 
> // field validation, I changed this line, didn't make new variables
> here but you could if you wanted (this saves some memory :) )
> if (empty($_POST['email']) || empty($_POST['comments']) ||
> empty($_POST['name'])){
>   print ("All fields are required! Please go back and try again.");
> }
> 
> else {
> 
> //new stuff :)
> $email = $_POST['email'];
> $name = $_POST['name'];
> $comments = $_POST['comments'];
> //end new stuff, you can use you own variables now
> 
> // email validation
> if(!eregi('^([._a-z0-9-]+[._a-z0-9-]*)@(([a-z0-9-]+\.)*([a-z0-9-]+)(\.[a-z]{2,3})?)$',
> $email)) {
>   print ("Your email address does not appear to be valid. Please go
> back and try again.");
>   exit;
> }
> 
> // send email
> $headers = "From: \"$name\" <$email>\n";
> $subject = "Feedback Form";
> $message = "$comments";
> 
> mail ("$youremail", "$subject", $message, $headers);
> print ("Thank you $name, your email has been sent.");
> 
> }
> ?>
> **************************************End
> Script****************************************
> 
> Anything wrong with this?
> the last line of the script does get executed
> I sent a message with webmin to a online account which works
> I guess i'm lost
> I thought it works like so
> 
> comment form
>         |
> php script
>         |
> sendmail
>         |
>   my online account
> 
> 
> --
If sendmail isn't sending the mail, ( or isn't suposed to), then what is ? 
I asked  around at a php forum and they have no luck either 


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Jim Lawrence
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