PHP mail() not sending emails Centos Cloud Server

Question

I am new to this. Have got a cloudserver running centos 5.4, Installed php, mysql and apache to run magento however emails are not going out.. Do I need to configure something more?

Solution

PHP mail function depends only on two things:

• PHP config (search for mail keyword in php.ini)
• Sendmail

Mail transport is a different question and if you don't have any errors after your PHP script sends the email, you could check:

• mailq, if queue is not empty, possibly there is firewall issue
• tail /var/log/mail, log checking :-)

Comments

[Admin]

Hi, Thanks for your reply. I checked /var/log/maillog and its empty. php.ini under [mail function]: sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i but in /usr/sbin there is no sendmail, maybe I need to install this first?

[user1807902]

Yes. Or check the command 'whereis sendmail` in case if sendmail is installed in different place.

[Alex Jasmin]

You could also install something else. Other MTAs also offer sendmail compatible sendmail commands.