PHP Mail function fails sending mails

[lijeshk]

I have a following PHP mail sending script which keeps getting failure when accessing via browser.

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<?php
$email = "mail@example.com";
$from = "user@example1.com";
 
if(!mail($email, 'Test subject', 'TestMsg', 'From: '. $from . "\r\n")) {
    echo "FAILURE";
}
else {
    echo "SUCCESS";
}
?>

I cannot find any coding issues in the script file, however php mail function is not working.

Solution:

In order to sort out this issue, please go through the following test cases:

• Test if php mail function is disabled in php.ini

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root@server [~]# cat /usr/local/lib/php.ini | grep disable_functions
disable_functions = "mail"

• If it is disabled, remove the entry of 'mail' from php.ini from the line, "disable_functions =". Then,

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# /etc/init.d/httpd restart

• If you are still having problem, try the following test. Let your mail script is mail.php. Then run the following command

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root@server [~]# php mail.php
sendmail: Not running with correct effective GID. Is sendmail binary setgid mailtrap?
sendmail: Not running with correct effective GID. Is sendmail binary setgid mailtrap?
root@server [~]#

• If you are getting an error as like above, you can do the following commands to fix this error:

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root@server [~]# which sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail

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root@server [~]# chown root:mailtrap /usr/sbin/sendmail
root@server [~]# chmod 2755 /usr/sbin/sendmail
That's it..

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