Posted by Nathaniel Price on 10/04/34 11:05

Nathaniel Price wrote:

> I've been searching for the solution to this problem to no avail.
>
> I recently did a clean install of FC3 on a server that was running
> RH8. There were a number of PHP scripts that I had configured to send
> out email for notices or passwords or the like. However, now that I've
> upgraded I can't send mail through the mail() command in PHP.
>
> My problem is exactly like what I found here, but unfortunately that
> question was left unanswerd:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg06708.html
>
> [snip]

I found out what the problem was on the fedora-users mailing list. It
turns out that it was a 'problem' with Fedora Core 3. By default it uses
SELinux to secure the httpd binary against executing other stuff it's
not supposed to, including the postfix sendmail-compatible interface.
FC's documentation on SELinux can be found here:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/

Thanks for your help and suggestions on this admittedly non-obvious problem.

Nathaniel

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