Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/05/07 03:15

Dudely wrote:
> On May 4, 3:41 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Dudely wrote:
>>> I'm trying to debug someone else's third party code that I'm trying to
>>> install on my site. It works for him on his site, but not for me on
>>> "my" site.
>>> I've traced the problem to the mail() call. For whatever reason, it's
>>> failing. And, my question is - how do I make php print the real
>>> reason for the failure?
>>> I've modified his code (multiple times), so that it now looks like
>>> this:
>>> error_reporting(E_ALL);
>>> $mail_sent = @mail($Email_Address, $subscribe_email_subject,
>>> $subscribe_confirm_msg, "From: $DB_OwnerName < $DB_ReplyToEmail >", "-
>>> f $DB_ReplyToEmail");
>>> if ($mail_sent)
>>> echo "Mail sent";
>>> else
>>> die ("Mail failed" . " in File: " . __FILE__ . " on line: " .
>>> __LINE__ . " Error was:" . $mail_sent[1] );
>>> It tells me the mail failed and in what file and on what line as
>>> expected, but I can't figure out how to make it print the true &
>>> actual error (such as "permission denied" or perhaps "no such file" or
>>> whatever the true error is). Prior to my changes, it simply had the
>>> mail function without the @ and without capturing the return value.
>>> So my question is two-fold:
>>> 1) How do I print the actual error and
>>> 2) What should I be looking at to figure out why mail is failing to
>>> send? Or to put it another way, what might be the possible reasons
>>> mail is failing that I should be checking?
>>> I'm on a Linux server, but I think he uses Windows to test his code,
>>> though I'm not sure. I'm somewhat new to PHP, but am very computer
>>> and programming literate in C. My goal is not to learn PHP, but just
>>> to get this third party app. working on my web host.
>>> Thank you
>> Do you have an SMTP server (i.e. sendmail) active on your machine, and
>> is your php.ini pointing at the executable?
>>
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>> Jerry Stuckle
>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
>> jstuck...@attglobal.net
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> Does the php.ini file affect all users, or is it set on a per user
> basis? If the former, I don't have access. If the latter, should it
> live in my home directory or somewhere else? What does/should it look
> like (where can I get a sample to plop in)? I don't know if sendmail
> runs all the time, but I do have access to the executable. I'm a user
> with typical limited access on a web host that is hosting my web page.
>
> Thank you
>

It affects all users. If you're on a hosted system, you need to contact
your hosting company. They may not have an SMTP server set up on this
box, they may restrict it's use to non-web apps, they might require a
login - or any of a dozen other things.

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