Good Morning,
This post is somewhat OT -- please forgive me. I've spent over 3 days
trying to get sendmail configured and I've lost some patience and
reasoning ability in the process.
I have a Linux (RH9), Apache 2.0.48, PHP 4.3.4, MySQL GUI that creates a
PDF document on the server for web access. We would also like to have the
document emailed to several folks within the company. So I essentially
have to get the PDF attached to an email and routed to our SMTP server. I
have webmin installed and have tried to use it to configure sendmail. When
I execute /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail status --- Linux says that sendmail
is running.
I'm using this method for creating emails with attachments (which was
posted on the PHP-WIN list several months ago ), but it is failing:
<?php
$fileatt = ""; // Path to the file
$fileatt_type = "application/octet-stream"; // File Type
$fileatt_name = ""; // Filename that will be used for the file as the
attachment
$email_from = ""; // Who the email is from
$email_subject = ""; // The Subject of the email
$email_txt = ""; // Message that the email has in it
$email_to = ""; // Who the email is too
$headers = "From: ".$email_from;
$file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');
$data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));
fclose($file);
$semi_rand = md5(time());
$mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";
$headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
"Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .
" boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";
$email_message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
"--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type:text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
$email_txt . "\n\n";
$data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));
$email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
"Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" .
" name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
//"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
//" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
$data . "\n\n" .
"--{$mime_boundary}--\n";
$ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);
if($ok) {
echo "<font face=verdana size=2>The file was successfully sent!</font>";
} else {
die("Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please go back and try
again!");
}
?>
I've examined the content of the variables in this expression (from above)
[[$ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers) ]] and
it looks ok, though I'm no expert, so I'm guessing that the problem lies
within the sendmail configuration. Webmin has loads of config pages for
sendmail, and I admit that they're overwhelming right now. It seemed to me
at first a relatively simple task to have an email created on the server,
and forwarded to our SMTP server for delivery, but I was obviously naiive
in this assumption. If anyone has suggestions or knows of helpful links or
tutorials, I'd be deeply obliged.
Thanks for reading this long post.
David
