I have searched everywhere for this and I really want to resolve this. In the past I just end up using an SMTP service like SendGrid for PHP and a mailing plugin like SwiftMailer. However I want to use PHP.
Basically my setup (I am new to server setup, and this is my personal setup following a tutorial)
Nginx
Rackspace Cloud
PHP 5.3 PHP-FPM
Ubuntu 11.04
My phpinfo() returns this about the Mail entries:
mail.log no value
mail.add_x_header On
mail.force_extra_parameters no value
sendmail_from no value
sendmail_path /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
SMTP localhost
smtp_port 25
Can someone help me to as why Mail() will not work - my script is working on all other sites, it is a normal mail command. Do I need to setup logs or enable some PHP port on the server?
My Sample script
<?
# FORMS VARS
// $to = $customers_email;
// $to = $customers_email;
$to = $_GET["customerEmailFromForm"];
$subject = "Thank you for contacting Real-Domain.com";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
Thanks, your message was sent and our team will be in touch shortly.
<img src='http://cdn.com/emails/thank_you.jpg' />
</body>
</html>
";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: <real-email#real-domain.com>' . "\r\n";
// SEND MAIL
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>
Thanks
If found that on a new installation of Ubuntu 14.04 with nginx and PHP-FPM (no apache), neither postfix nor mailutils were installed.
I used:
sudo apt-get install postfix
(as in the recommended answer)
AND
sudo apt-get install mailutils
to get everything working on my server. Both were required. An entry in PHP.ini (as mentioned in the recommended answer) may also have helped, but without both of the other packages, it wouldn't have made a difference.
As there is no value for sendmail_from you need to set one in php.ini:
sendmail_from = "you#example.com"
Or in the headers when you call to mail:
mail($to, $subject, $message, 'From: you#example.com');
The email address should follow RFC 2822 for example:
you#example.com
You <you#example.com>
Failing that, have you actually installed a working email system?
If not, you can install postfix with the following command:
sudo apt-get install postfix
See below for more information on configuring postfix for use with PHP in Ubuntu:
https://serverfault.com/questions/119105/setup-ubuntu-server-to-send-mail
Related
I have to send a mail with an attachment from a shell script.
I am trying to do it using mutt as shown here: How do I send a file as an email attachment using Linux command line?
Command:
echo "This is the message body" | mutt -a "/path/to/file.to.attach" -s "subject of message" -- recipient#domain.com
Error:
Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.). Could not send
the message.
I was having the same issue on Ubuntu 18.04 and just like #jono, I only had installed mutt. Installing
sudo apt-get install sendmail
After that, sending mail with the test method or straight through the mutt CLI worked perfectly.
I have encountered this same error today.
I found I only had mutt installed, but once I installed sendmail this error went away. However I then got blocked locally.
So I uninstalled sendmail, and installed postfix this worked..
Now receiving email with attached pdf.
This was on RHEL 7.4 in an enterprise environment. Unsure if results will differ on other versions or environments.
I had this error and had to simply add below to my .muttrc. I'm using Gmail if that matters. This way I'm using someone elses server to send and don't have to install extra junk.
set smtp_pass="secrets"
set smtp_url = "smtps://username#gmail.com#smtp.gmail.com:465/"
set the password generated from this link into this file:
# file: ~/.muttrc
set from="first_name.last_name#gmail.com"
set realname="first_name last_name"
set imap_user="first_name.last_name#gmail.com"
#
# v1.0.1
# check the following google help page:
# http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=185833
# that is set here your google application password
set imap_pass="SecretPass!"
#nopeset imap_authenticators="gssapi"
set imap_authenticators="gssapi:cram-md5:login"
set certificate_file="~/.mutt/certificates"
#
# These two lines appear to be needed on some Linux distros, like Arch Linux
#
##REMOTE GMAIL FOLDERS
set folder="imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
set record="+[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
set spoolfile="imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/INBOX"
set postponed="+[Gmail]/Drafts"
set trash="+[Google Mail]/Trash"
#
###SMTP Settings to sent email
set smtp_url="smtp://first_name.last_name#smtp.gmail.com:587"
#
# v1.0.1
# check the following google help page:
# http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=185833
# that is set here your google application password
set smtp_pass="SecretPass!"
#
###LOCAL FOLDERS FOR CACHED HEADERS AND CERTIFICATES
set header_cache="~/.mutt/cache/headers"
set message_cachedir="~/.mutt/cache/bodies"
set certificate_file =~/.mutt/certificates
#
###SECURING
set move=no #Stop asking to "move read messages to mbox"!
set imap_keepalive=900
#
###Sort by newest conversation first.
set sort=reverse-threads
set sort_aux=last-date-received
#
###Set editor to create new email
set editor='vim'
set ssl_starttls=yes
set ssl_force_tls=yes
Fix for GMail Account Configuration
The following post worked for me: https://www.codyhiar.com/blog/getting-mutt-setup-with-gmail-using-2-factor-auth-on-ubuntu-14-04/
But it was not very clear. The contents of ~/.muttrc that worked for me are as follows (My account has 2-Step verification enabled and I had to generate app password as described in the post):
set imap_user = "<username>#gmail.com"
set imap_pass = "<16-character-app-password>"
set sendmail="/usr/sbin/ssmtp"
set folder="imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
set spoolfile="imaps://imap.gmail.com/INBOX"
set record="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
set postponed="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Drafts"
set header_cache = "~/.mutt/cache/headers"
set message_cachedir = "~/.mutt/cache/bodies"
set certificate_file = "~/.mutt/certificates"
set from = "<username>#gmail.com"
set realname = "<name-used-in-the-gmail-account>"
set smtp_url = "smtp://<username>#smtp.gmail.com:587/"
set smtp_pass="<16-character-app-password>"
set move = no
set imap_keepalive = 900
# Gmail-style keyboard shortcuts
macro index,pager ga "<change-folder>=[Gmail]/All<tab><enter>" "Go to all mail"
macro index,pager gi "<change-folder>=INBOX<enter>" "Go to inbox"
macro index,pager gs "<change-folder>=[Gmail]/Starred<enter>" "Go to starred messages"
macro index,pager gd "<change-folder>=[Gmail]/Drafts<enter>" "Go to drafts"
macro index,pager e "<enter-command>unset trash\n <delete-message>" "Gmail archive message" # different from Gmail, but wanted to keep "y" to show folders.
Replace the following:
<username>: Your gmail username
<16-character-app-password>: You have to generate this
<name-used-in-the-gmail-account>: Your name as per gmail account
Note: Don't change <change-folder>
The below is working just fine
$stream = fopen($connection_string . "/var/tmp/test.test", 'r');
But
$stream = fopen($connection_string . "/var/tmp/test.#test", 'r');
Fails with an error message:
Warning: fopen(): Unable to open ssh2.sftp://Resource id #108/var/tmp/test.#test on remote host in...
test.test and test#test are working fine, only the combination of test.#test is failing.
ssh2_scp_recv() handles test.#test just fine.
CentOS release 5.8 (Final)
PHP 5.2.17
Is this a php bug? Or some special character escaping is required?
it would be interesting to know how well it works with phpseclib. eg.
<?php
include('Net/SFTP.php');
$sftp = new Net_SFTP('www.domain.tld');
if (!$sftp->login('username', 'password')) {
exit('Login Failed');
}
// outputs the contents of filename.remote to the screen
echo $sftp->get('filename.remote');
// copies filename.remote to filename.local from the SFTP server
$sftp->get('filename.remote', 'filename.local');
?>
src: http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/sftp/examples.html#get
if phpseclib didn't work you could enable logging, with phpseclib, and see what the phpseclib logs say. eg. do define('NET_SSH2_LOGGING', NET_SSH2_LOG_COMPLEX); after you include Net/SFTP.php and then do $sftp->getLog() after you try to download the file.
I once used int_set to send email from my company local xammp server for testing.
ini_set('SMTP','mail.companysite.com');
ini_set('smtp_port','26');
ini_set('sendmail_from','email#companysite.com');
Now our host has upgraded the server and we have to authenticate email sending. However I have not been able to get ini_set to work with authentication for email. How can this be done?
We are using xampp on windows machine.
I figured this out:
here is my code:
ini_set('SMTP','mail.somewebsite');
ini_set('smtp_port','26');
ini_set('sendmail_from','email#somewebsite');
ini_set('auth_username','email#somewebsite');
ini_set('auth_password','password');
$headers = "From:email#somewebsite\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";
mail("email#gmail.com", "testing authentication", "hello world", $headers);
I have a form on my page. When the user hits the Send button - it's supposed to send an email with the details he entered in the form. Up until recently the form was hosted on a Linux server and I had no problem with it - the mail was sent and received. Recently I had to move to shared Windows server and since the move the mail is not sent. Here's the code that supposed to send the mail:
function send_contact_form($strName, $strEmail, $strPhone, $strMessage)
{
$to = 'mymail#mysite.com';
$subject = 'From the site';
$message = '<html lang="HE">
<head>
<title>
'.$subject.'
</title>
</head>
<body style="text-align:right; direction:rtl; font-family: Arial;">
Name: '.$strName.'<br>Email: '
.$strEmail.'<br>Phone: '.$strPhone
.'<br><br>Message: <br>'.$strMessage.'
</body>
</html>';
$email = $strEmail;
$header = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
$header .= "From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email" . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $header);
}
In a windows environment PHP uses SMTP insted of the Linux binary sendmail (or replacement)
You need to edit php.ini according to this page to be able to send e-mail via the mail() function.
On Linux, PHP uses an application called sendmail. Of course there is no similar applicaion on Windows. As php.ini file says, to be able to work with mail function, you need to setup mail server coordinates. If You don't have mail server, it is not possible to send emails from PHP. Of course You could use some external server like gmail.
I've just upgraded from XAMPP 1.7.3 to 1.8.0, this included quite a few changes (PHP 5.4 etc) as I went through the reinstallation of my dev-environment.
Anyways, everything works now, except for Sendmail.
Before, you had a configuration in sendmail.ini like this:
#defaults
logfile "C:\XAMPP\sendmail\sendmail.log"
## A freemail service example
account Hotmail
tls on
tls_certcheck off
host smtp.live.com
from [exampleuser]#testmail.loc
auth on
user [exampleuser]#hotmail.com
password [examplepassword]
# Set a default account
account default : Hotmail
Plus some values in php.ini:
sendmail_path = "C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25
Now it all looks a lot different (and the old config wouldn't work), an example:
http://pastebin.com/M83bNmJw
A little php mail script:
<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$to = "someone#hotmail.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
}
?>
Message delivery failed...
I guess I'm too stupid to change the correct things, it just won't work, plus I barely get an error in my log-files, so I don't even know where to start.
#GMAIL mit XAMPP 1.8.1 und sendmail
[CODE]
[sendmail]
; HOTMAIL
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=25
smtp_ssl=tls
tls_certcheck off
error_logfile=error.log
debug_logfile=debug.log
auth_username= xxxx.xxxx#gmail.com
auth_password=xxxxxxx
this settings in php.ini
[mail function]
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with an SMTP Server like Mercury
; SMTP = smtp.gmail.com
; smtp_port = 25
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
sendmail_from = xxxx.xxxx#gmail.com
; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (1): If XAMPP is installed in a base directory with spaces (e.g. c:\program filesC:\xampp) fakemail and mailtodisk do not work correctly.
; XAMPP IMPORTANT NOTE (2): In this case please copy the sendmail or mailtodisk folder in your root folder (e.g. C:\sendmail) and use this for sendmail_path.
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with fakemail for forwarding to your mailbox (sendmail.exe in the sendmail folder)
sendmail_path = "\"C:\sendmail\sendmail.exe\" -t"
; XAMPP: Comment out this if you want to work with mailToDisk, It writes all mails in the C:\xampp\mailoutput folder
;sendmail_path = "C:\xampp\mailtodisk\mailtodisk.exe"
; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =
; Add X-PHP-Originating-Script: that will include uid of the script followed by the filename
mail.add_x_header = Off
; Log all mail() calls including the full path of the script, line #, to address and headers
mail.log = "C:\xampp\php\logs\php_mail.log"
I see that in 1.8.0, the default will send mail through mailtodisk.exe. You have enabled it in your PHP config file, but have you disabled mailtodisk.exe?
In addition, you'll need to ensure that smtp_server in sendmail.ini is set to localhost.
I just found this solution myself, and all mail sent using PHP works.
My xampp is 1.8.2 with window 8.1
In php.ini
smtp_port = 587
sendmail_path = "C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"
mail.add_x_header=Off
In sendmail.ini
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=587
smtp_ssl=auto
error_logfile=error.log
auth_username=xxaayy#gmail.com
auth_password=kskcmhlrjr
pop3_server=
pop3_username=
pop3_password=
force_sender=xxaayy#gmail.com
force_recipient=
hostname=
To account gmail "auth_password" you need create new password "Your application-specific passwords", check [here][1]
then follow these steps:
The problem is that sendmail has to be run as an administrator. This is the solution to help any one on my situation.
Right click on sendmail.exe
Properties
Compatibility
Change the configuration for all users
Execute as Windows XP SP 3
Execute as adminitrator
test email
$to = "aaaaaaa#domain.com";
$subject = "Hi!";
$body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
$headers = "From: xxaayy#gmail.com" . "\r\n";
if (mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) {
echo ("Message successfully sent!");
} else {
echo ("Message delivery failed...");
}
I've found a working example, it works like a charm now
http://blog.joergboesche.de/xampp-sendmail-php-mailversand-fuer-windows-konfigurieren#xampp_180_sendmail