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Xoundboy
Asked: 2012-03-18 07:30:17 +0800 CST

How to troubleshoot PHP mail problems

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I'm building a PHP server backup script that sends me an email if errors occur. Now I have this code:

  if (mail("[email protected]", "ERRRORRSSSS", "hello:)")) {
     echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
    } else {
     echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
    }

when I run it on the command line Iget the "message successfully sent" message, but nothing appears in my mail box (or spam folder)

Here's some more info...

php -i |grep mail
mail.force_extra_parameters => no value => no value
sendmail_from => no value => no value
sendmail_path => /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i => /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
Path to sendmail => /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
MAIL => /var/spool/mail/root
_SERVER["MAIL"] => /var/spool/mail/root
_ENV["MAIL"] => /var/spool/mail/root

Any ideas??

php sendmail

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Your problem is that the web host thinks that it should deliver emails for every [email protected] locally, while in fact mail for mydomain.com should be delivered elsewhere.

    See this answer on ServerFault on what you may try to do to solve this

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