Well actually the stupid thing is sendmail works when someone tries to register with a free email like hotmail ( I tested my self...) ut when I tried my 3 different POP3s none of them worked...
Now any ideas ?? I chechked /var/spool/mail and when I picoed them I can see all the outgoing stuff there but they only stay there :P thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "nighty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cti-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "coder-com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 3:34 AM Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] GNU website > At 21:00 07/04/2002, Cti- wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> Yesterday I succesfully compiled GNUworld and website and both of them = > >> working properly atm. > >> I have just a major problem. When I try to register usernames from = > >> website I fill the form and send it > >> than "Your registyration e-mail has been sent ... etc" Line appers. But = > >> I do not get the e-mail if I use=20 > >> a POP3 account. I tried it on 2 different POP3 e-mail address and both = > >> of them did not work but when I > >> tried it on hotmail It worked succesfully. Does anyone have an idea = > >> about that ? > >> > >> Thanks Cti- > > > >I Hope its plain txt now.... :P > > Hello, > > yeah it's plaintext ... ;) > well you may want to check locally to your machine the > > # mailq > > or the logs of your local smtp agent to check what exactly was the > reason why the mail could not be delivered. > > I can assure you the PHP calls the function to send the email, but this > will only work if you have "something" able to send emails on your machine > for example sendmail or postfix or any other SMTP capable software. > > PHP by default uses the sendmail command specified in php.ini (formerly sendmail -i or so) > if your sendmail installation is not placed under the path i think you would want to > change it in php.ini and restart apache for changes to take effect. > If you dont have an SMTP agent, i suggest you download and install one (http://www.sendmail.org/) > If you use Postfix, it should install a "wrapper" to sendmail.. e.g. postfix will install > a "script" that will allow programms calling lines like "sendmail -i <some other args>" to be passed to > postfix correctly... I think the only reasons why you cant get your site to send mails could be : > > - no local SMTP agent > - badly configured local SMTP agent > - NAT'd network and locally the machine can't access the remote network/and or recipient's MX > - the 'sendmail' binary/script can't be found with default options of the "php.ini" file (prolly in /usr/local/lib/php.ini) > > Check mailq, /var/adm/log/maillog (or /var/adm/log/messages), /var/spool/mqueue, /var/spool/clientmqueue > and read your SMTP agent's manual for any questions regarding it. > > regards, > > > ----------------------------------------------- > nighty - Undernet IRC Operator > ----------------------------------------------- > Paris.FR.EU.Undernet.Org > ----------------------------------------------- > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PGP key available at http://www.ecp-net.com/pgpkeys.php3?mail=nighty%40undernet.org > FingerPrint : 40A8 D43E E4EB D04D D7AD A9AC 2392 A17F E57C C83E > ----------------------------------------------- >
