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user1147995
user1147995

Reputation: 161

Php mail() is not working but sendmail is.

I have an Amazon EC2 instance running with RH/Linux. My problem is php mail() function which is not working although I can send mail with sendmail from command line.

I run this command. # telnet localhost 25 

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
XXXXX

My php.ini setting is 

 mail function]
 SMTP = localhost
 smtp_port = 25
 sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
 mail.add_x_header = On

I can't fingure out whats wrong. I am not getting any php mail error. I don't get any email as well. What could the problem be?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5823

Answers (1)

Charles
Charles

Reputation: 51411

Sending mail on EC2 is notoriously difficult. Most of the EC2 IP addresses are in spamming blacklists. This, combined with PHP mail()'s terrible error reporting results in a pretty horrible experience.

You'll want to use Amazon Simple Email Service in combination with EC2. They recently added an SMTP service, meaning you can use any standards-compliant PHP mailing library to send mails.

I personally recommend Swiftmailer for this task.

Upvotes: 4

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