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#1 2011-03-02 22:50:57
- chris-kun
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how to get sendmail up and running?
So yeah, my server can't send outgoing emails. I don't want to set up a full-blown mail server, I just want my php apps to be able to send emails. Everywhere I go it seems to say it should work out of the box, but not here. Any ideas?
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#2 2011-03-02 23:28:32
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Re: how to get sendmail up and running?
Try msmtp instead of sendmail: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Msmtp
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#3 2011-03-03 10:35:03
- ghen
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Re: how to get sendmail up and running?
That won't do any queueing if your upstream smarthost is unavailable. You'll have to handle errors, retransmissions etc from within your php app.
If you don't want that, you could install a minimal Postfix, with no smtpd daemon. Sendmail-cli compatible clients (like php, cron) will be able to send mail without any network daemons listening.
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#4 2011-03-03 18:38:06
- chris-kun
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Re: how to get sendmail up and running?
well I mean, I do have the postfix package installed, but it hasn't improved sendmail's ability to function. I also tried following the postfix wiki a bit but still no luck.
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#5 2011-03-03 19:40:55
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Re: how to get sendmail up and running?
have you got exim installed? Also as I recalled I need to install php-pear to be able to use the "mail" function.
As far as I remember php-pear solved my problems.
http://pear.php.net/package/Mail/redirected
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#6 2011-03-03 20:44:13
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Re: how to get sendmail up and running?
I second msmtp, if you don't need queue. Otherwise, nullmailer is one of the simplest MTA i have seen. Of course, Exim is the best one 
, but general purpose MTA seems an overkill for your needs...
PEAR is not needed for mail() to function properly, all it needs is sendmail-compatible /usr/sbin/sendmail
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#7 2011-03-06 21:27:02
- chris-kun
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Re: how to get sendmail up and running?
ok so I have msmtp working from command line but can't seem to integrate it into php. what I have so far is this: sendmail_path = "/usr/bin/msmtp -t --file='/etc/msmtp.conf'"
any ideas?
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#8 2011-03-09 19:47:31
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Re: how to get sendmail up and running?
no one? 
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#9 2011-07-04 13:57:06
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