Hello, I ran into a strange problem yesterday. I am totally unable to get mail generated via the php-mail command to be delivered on any local e-mail address on the same server. The mail addresses work perfectly when mail from the outside is sent to them, and the php mail function also works smooth when sending mail "to the outside". So an e-mail form on www.domain1.com can't send mail to [email protected] or [email protected] (which resides on the same server) but it can send to [email protected] which runs at another server. [email protected] and [email protected] can receive mail send via other ways (hotmail,gmail, outlook). Any suggestions would be appreciated.
could you show the output of the mail logfile while sending that mailcommand please? mail() normally returns TRUE or FALSE only.
in this case mail() always returns true somehow. Which file should I look for? /var/log/mail.log mail.info mail.err don't show any signs of having entry's written to them (other then imap/courier messages of login/logout).
I had a similar problem yesterday and take me 2 hour to realize the problem... PHP uses sendmail to send mail, and it was not installed on my server. Somehow the postfix's sendmail doesnt work 100% compatible, so i had to modify the php.ini. Where it says "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i" put "/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix -t -i" Maybe your sendmail is still running and delivering to external servers, but it doesnt work with local domains.
This seems to be the right direction only /etc/sbin/sendmail.postfix will result in mail() returning false. Both "/etc/sbin/sendmail.postfix -t -i" and "/etc/sbin/postfix -t -i" fail. The postfix executable is in /etc/sbin
Is /etc/sbin/sendmail.postfix a symlink on your system? It doesn't exist on my system (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS)
Ok, this is not the problem. /etc/sbin/sendmail actually is the postfix sendmail wrapper. Sendmail has never been installed on this server... Any other suggestions?
Are there any errors in your mail log? Do you use Maildir or mbox? What's the output of Code: netstat -tap ? Are the domains you're sending to listed in /etc/postfix/local-host-names?
root@ds2:/home/vincentthe# netstat -tap Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 3975/mysqld tcp 0 0 *:81 *:* LISTEN 4319/ispconfig_http tcp 0 0 ds2.tt-hosting.nl:81 vincent-1.adsl.ut:61825 SYN_RECV - tcp 0 0 s1.tpvm.nl:domain *:* LISTEN 4554/named tcp 0 0 ds2.tt-hosting.n:domain *:* LISTEN 4554/named tcp 0 0 localhost:domain *:* LISTEN 4554/named tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 12948/master tcp 0 0 localhost:953 *:* LISTEN 4554/named tcp6 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 3849/couriertcpd tcp6 0 0 *op3s *:* LISTEN 3884/couriertcpd tcp6 0 0 *op3 *:* LISTEN 3864/couriertcpd tcp6 0 0 *:imap2 *:* LISTEN 3829/couriertcpd tcp6 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 4581/apache2 tcp6 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 12851/proftpd: (acc tcp6 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 4138/sshd tcp6 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 12948/master tcp6 0 0 ip6-localhost:953 *:* LISTEN 4554/named tcp6 0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN 4581/apache2 tcp6 0 1332 ds2.tt-hosting.nl:ssh vincent-1.adsl.ut:61827 ESTABLISHED24488/sshd: vincent No errors found in the mail log, I'm using Maildir and and yes the domains are listed in /etc/postfix/local-host-names
Please run Code: tail -f /var/log/mail.log and then send a mail to a local account with PHP's mail() function. Do you see any action then in the tail output?
