Sendmail
Hello...
Me again
Just trying to figure out how to get sendmail to work...
From the command line, I typed whereis sendmail
it came up with a lot of things, but the only one that ended in sendmail not sendmail.* was /usr/sbin/sendmail
I am trying to use a perl/cgi script that uses sendmail, but it won't send the mail.
No errors are recorded, but the mail is not sent.
I noticed that it takes quite a while for the script to execute if it is trying to use sendmail, but the other functions take no time at all.
Please help!
Thanks!
PS: Perl works fine and so does PHP, but MySQL just won't work yet...
mairving posted this at 18:24 — 6th July 2001.
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Everything that you always wanted to know about setting up RedHat sendmail.
nike_guy_man posted this at 21:24 — 8th July 2001.
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But sendmail is set up.
I set it up when I installed RH 6.2
It just won't work!
I set up Pine and I can receive/send mail from there...
ideas?
mairving posted this at 03:08 — 9th July 2001.
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If sendmail is setup properly, then I would check the path to sendmail in your script. In RedHat, the path is usually /usr/sbin/sendmail. In other Linux distros the path is often /usr/bin/sendmail.
Mark Irving
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nike_guy_man posted this at 03:49 — 9th July 2001.
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Nope.
When I submit the form that uses sendmail, it takes a long time to send, and I get a mail message in linux saying data format error.
I'll try again...
mairving posted this at 02:52 — 10th July 2001.
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Sorry, Nike_guy, I haven't been able to help you more. A new week old baby in the house makes it hard to type sometimes.
Is this a script that you wrote or one that you got off of the web?
If you want, you could email me the script or if it is not too long, post it here (using the code tag). I will try to look at it and test it to see if it is the script or your sendmail setup. A format error I would think would most likely be in the script.
Mark Irving
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nike_guy_man posted this at 02:58 — 10th July 2001.
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here we go:
#!/usr/bin/perlprint "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
$mail = 1;
if ($mail) {
open (MAIL,"/usr/sbin/sendmail");
print MAIL "To: parrabal\@home.com";
print MAIL "From: parrabal\@home.com";
print MAIL "Subject: Hello";
print MAIL "hello";
close(MAIL);
print "<html><head><title>yes</title></head></html>";
print "Hello";
} else {
print "Nope";
}
i've also tried
#!/usr/bin/perlprint "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
$mail = 1;
if ($mail) {
open (MAIL,"|/usr/bin/sendmail");
print MAIL "To: parrabal\@home.com";
print MAIL "From: parrabal\@home.com";
print MAIL "Subject: Hello";
print MAIL " hey hey hello";
close(MAIL);
print "<html><head><title>yes</title></head></html>";
print "Hello";
} else {
print "Nope";
}
but neither works
mairving posted this at 01:57 — 11th July 2001.
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Try using something like this:
$mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
instead of
open (MAIL,"/usr/sbin/sendmail");
nike_guy_man posted this at 03:10 — 11th July 2001.
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Nope... doesn't fix it
Should the permissions for /usr/sbin/sendmail be changed??
Gyrbo posted this at 08:29 — 11th July 2001.
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It should be set to executable. Maybe it isn't correctly installed.
nike_guy_man posted this at 15:30 — 11th July 2001.
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It was installed when I installed RedHat 6.2
Should I try to chmod it?
What should I chmod it to?
mairving posted this at 16:04 — 11th July 2001.
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chmod -777 will give everyone all priviledges.
I tried running it on my system. It didn't work. I will play around with it some today as time permits.
Mark Irving
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nike_guy_man posted this at 17:25 — 20th July 2001.
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How about using an SMTP server?
What is the difference and how would I use that instead??
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