do a phpinfo() from your browser, and see what is sendmail_path configured to

if it is sendmail -t -i

that is your problem.

the sendmail wrapper of qmail does not take all options that sendmail takes.
remove all options and then it should work.

shashi joshi

--- Joel Uckelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoth "Bill Andersen":
> > OK, I hate to go back "on list" with this, but since I got about
> > 30 replies, it's easier to go back to the list then to reply to each
> > of you.  THANKS for all the replies though.
> > 
> > Almost all the replies were "did you set up links to qmail's sendmail
> > wrapper"... Yes!  I've had qmail running for 6 months without any
> > problems.  Followed LWQ to the letter and have since re-verified the
> > links are in place...
> > 
> > [bill@mail bill]$ cd /usr/lib
> > [bill@mail lib]$ ls -l sendmail
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Jun  3 11:25 sendmail ->
> > /var/qmail/b
> > in/sendmail
> > [bill@mail lib]$ cd /usr/sbin
> > [bill@mail sbin]$ ls -l sendmail
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Jun  3 11:25 sendmail ->
> > /var/qmail/b
> > in/sendmail
> > 
> > I even did the following:
> > 
> > 1) Stopped qmail and removed the symlinks
> > 2) Installed sendmail (from RPM)
> > 3) Did a complete install (./configure <blah blah>, make, make install) for
> >    both PHP and Apache (per their instructions)
> > 4) Uninstalled sendmail using RPM
> > 5) Re-create the symlinks to "qmail's sendmail"
> > 6) Restarted qmail (actually restared the machine, qmail's working)
> > 
> > STILL, get the error: "mail() is not supported in the PHP build"
> > 
> > The only thing I haven't tried is the suggestion from Michael Geier below.
> > Nothing personal Michael, but Hell, I don't want to have to start from
> > scratch... surely I don't need to re-install Linux!
> > 
> > Anybody else?
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > (OK, back to "off list" mode!)
> 
> Hi, I've been using a PHP build from the source RPM on my box for a while 
> without any problems, though admittedly I haven't been doing anything that 
> would use the mail() function, so I might actually have the same problem 
> you do, I just don't know.
> 
> Of course, my telling you that helps you not at all, so here's my 
> suggestion:
> 
> (1) Test to see if the mail() function works with sendmail installed. I 
> know that involves some work, but maybe it's just broken in the version of 
> PHP you have.
> 
> (2) If you've done (1) and found that mail() works, leave sendmail 
> installed, but just delete all of the sendmail binaries (so nothing can be 
> run) and put the symlinks back, etc. That way, all of the sendmail 
> libraries are still there and hopefully PHP will stop complaining.
> 
> Admittedly, this is an ugly solution, but it *might* work if you can't fix 
> it any other way.
> 
> -- 
> J.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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