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Roland Seuhs
Roland Seuhs

Reputation: 1995

Use php mail() function with custom exim installation

I have an exim installation in a non-standard path.

How can I configure php so that mail() will use it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6334

Answers (2)

edson.a.soares
edson.a.soares

Reputation: 1060

After guarantee that exim4 is really running without any problem. 

sudo service exim4 status
or 
sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 status
Note.: Pay attention to result at the command line. It'll warn you, if it has any problem.

 * Stopping MTA for restart
 * Restarting MTA
ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken

You may edit the file 

/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
and add the line 
sendmail_path = "/my_custom_path/exim -t"
without the option -i which will cause problems.

So, type that to test, 

echo "Testing." | mail -s Test [email protected]
instead of test with PHP function. There are so many things (firewall, network: subnets and security groups, PHP settings) that can cause problems to your routine that's better guarantee exim4 works.

Upvotes: 2

Roland Seuhs
Roland Seuhs

Reputation: 1995

The solution is to change the value of the "sendmail_path" variable in php.ini:

sendmail_path="/my_custom_path/exim -t -i"

exim is compatible to sendmail when it comes to command line arguments

Upvotes: 3

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