From: me at mattbeale dot plus dot com
Operating system: Windows 2000 SP3
PHP version: 4CVS-2003-03-28 (stable)
PHP Bug Type: Mail related
Bug description: mail function hang-up
System Spec:
Pentium 2 350Mhz, 256MB RAM, Windows 2000 Professional SP3, Apache 1.3.27
Win32 PHP/4.3.2.2 RC (20030328 Win32 stable from snaps.php.net - Build
Date: Mar 28 2003 18:11:34) using Apache ISAPI module with GD2 support
enabled in php.ini.
The Problem:
The mail() function in PHP hangs when talking to my ISP mail server,
causing the Apache child process to hang indefinitely and ultimately
requiring it to be closed forcefully by stopping and restarting the system
service. There are never any errors reported by PHP, not even those of the
maximum execution timeout variety, so this would indicate to me that
something is very wrong somewhere. I can reproduce this 100% and it
happens regardless of how the mail function is written, even a simple
<?php mail('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', 'Hello', 'Hello There'); ?> will cause it to
hang.
To try and rectify this problem myself, I have formatted and reinstall
Windows 2000, completely uninstalled and reinstalled both Apache and PHP
several times, tried various recent versions of PHP and tried using only a
very basic httpd.conf/php.ini, with only required settings for the SMTP
support under Windows and it still does it.
Using a packet-sniffer, I am able to monitor PHP as it is talking to my
ISP's mail server. Unless I'm reading things incorrectly, PHP never gets
past the initial HELO <machine name> command, even though my ISPs mail
server does respond with 250 OK, indicating that it was successful. PHP
blatantly ignores this and instead chooses to sit there like a lemon, as
if nothing ever happened.
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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22947&edit=1
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Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=trysnapshot
Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=needtrace
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=notwrong
Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22947&r=gnused
