How To Log Emails Sent With PHP's mail() Function To Detect Form Spam

Hi,
The script written by Still log the e-mails but not sending them.

http://howtoforge.org/how-to-log-emails-sent-with-phps-mail-function-to-detect-form-spam

 

Any errors in your mail log?

 

Thank you Till for the correction.

The howto is very useful.

 

I try to make this script working several times but no luck.
I have same problem, the script is logging but no emails is sent out.
I check mail.log and there is fatal error with sendmail.

PHP:

Jan 21 20:54:44 server imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1]
Jan 21 20:54:44 server imapd: LOGIN, user=sajo, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], port=[55615], protocol=IMAP
Jan 21 20:54:44 server postfix/sendmail[14649]: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]
Jan 21 20:54:44 server imapd: LOGOUT, user=sajo, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], headers=0, body=0, rcvd=430, sent=327, time=0


this is my phpsendmail file

PHP:

server:/home/damjan# vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
server:/home/damjan# vi /usr/local/bin/phpsendmail
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php

/**
  This script is a sendmail wrapper for php to log calls of the php mail() function.
  Author: Till Brehm, www.ispconfig.org
  (Hopefully) secured by David Goodwin <david @ _palepurple_.co.uk>
*/

$sendmail_bin = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
$logfile = '/var/log/mail.form';

//* Get the email content
$logline = '';
$pointer = fopen('php://stdin', 'r');

while ($line = fgets($pointer)) {
        if(preg_match('/^to:/i', $line) || preg_match('/^from:/i', $line)) {
                  $logline .= trim($line)." \n";
        }
        $mail .= $line;
}

//* compose the sendmail command
$command = 'echo ' . escapeshellarg($mail) . ' | '.$sendmail_bin.' -t -i';
for ($i = 1; $i < $_SERVER['argc']; $i++) {
        $command .= escapeshellarg($_SERVER['argv'][$i]).' ';
}



//* Write the log
file_put_contents($logfile, date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . ' ' . $_ENV['PWD'] . ' ' . $logline, FILE_APPEND);
//* Execute the command
return shell_exec($command);
?>



Please, need some help.
Thanks in advance

 

Does /usr/sbin/sendmail exist? Is the path correct?

 

Hello, Falko thanks for help.

Yes path is correct and file is there.

 

Issues sending UTF-8 encoded emails

Dear All,

We have had issues sending UTF-8 encoded emails when using this phpsendmail wrapper instead of the normal sendmail method. Basically the contents get all turned into unreadable characters.

Has anyone experienced similar issues? Would there be a way of fixing this?

Thank you so much for the excellent information.

With Best Wishes,
Unai Rodriguez