PHP Mail Function Hangs

English Network/Internet
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I hope I am posting in the right place.

I am running OpenSUSE 12.1 and am trying to send email via the PHP mail() function. I configured php.ini to point to the location of sendmail (/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i), and verified via phpinfo that the parameter is set correctly. I configured outbound-only capability using Yast and am able to use sendmail successfully from the command line. I do not know what else to do.

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Well, I figured out what was wrong. I had to grant permission to Others to be able to utilize the maildrop folder.

Here is what I had to do to allow the PHP mail function and also Nagios to be able to send email notifications.

  1. set the sendmail_path to /usr/bin/sendmail -t -i

  2. Restart apache2 services (service apache2 restart)

  3. Use yast to configure out-bound email only. I only had to enter the IP address of the mail server I am utilizing. I left all in-bound parameters blank.

  4. Change permission to “Create and delete files” for Others for the maildrop folder (/var/spool/postfix/maildrop)

The log file for Postfix is located in the /var/log folder.

I hope this is helpful to someone.