Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:23:12 -0800 From: Scottie Swenson <swenson@heronetwork.com> To: bsd@time-on.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail using phpmail Message-ID: <3FCCD890.6010205@heronetwork.com> In-Reply-To: <3fcc2a97.2cde.0@time-on.com> References: <3fcc2a97.2cde.0@time-on.com>
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Greetings,
We host a lot of virtual domain web sites on BSD boxes that are running PHP
forms and sending out tons of email. Sometimes PHP doesn't figure out the right
path for the sendmail program. So your first check is to make sure PHP is using
sendmail correctly for your particular box. The builting phpinfo() command puts
out a nice summary of your php build including all the build options. You need
to make sure PHP was compiled with the correct path to sendmail.
A php check web page:
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<?php phpinfo(); ?>
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In the CORE PHP configuration section look for the setting 'sendmail_path'.
Ours is set to '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i'
You can test to see if PHP can send email using the code I included bellow.
Given that PHP can send email phpmail should start working.
I am not sure how phpmail handles the mail but we have found email works a LOT
better if some extra header information is included. Here is the PHP code you
can use to check to see if PHP is able send messages from a functioning email
form on a BSD box:
email.php:
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<?php
$_toEmailAddress = "info@somedomain.com";
$_ccEmailAddress = "";
//$_bccEmailAddress = "alternate@destination.com";
$_subject = $_POST[ "subject" ];
$_comments = $_POST[ "message" ];
$phone = $_POST[ "phoneNumber" ];
$name = $_POST[ "name" ];
$_from = "\"$name\" <" . $_POST[ "email" ] . ">";
if ( $_POST[ "cc_me" ] == "on" ) {
$_ccEmailAddress = $_from;
}
$message = "\n\nName: " . $name . "\n";
$message .= "Email: " . $_from . "\n";
$message .= "Phone Number: " . $phone . "\n";
$message .= "\nMessage: " . $_comments . "\n\n";
$_headers = "";
//$_headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
//$_headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$_headers .= "From: $_from\r\n";
//$_headers .= "To: ".$_toEmailAddress."\r\n";
if (! empty($_bccEmailAddress) ) {
$_headers .= "BCC: ".$_bccEmailAddress."\r\n";
}
if (! empty($_ccEmailAddress) ) {
$_headers .= "CC: ".$_ccEmailAddress."\r\n";
}
$_headers .= "Reply-To: $_from\r\n";
$_headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$_headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
$_headers .= "X-Mailer: Hero Network Email System";
$mailresponse = mail("$_toEmailAddress",
"$_subject",
"$message",
$_headers
);
?>
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email_form.html
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>
Untitled
</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="email.php" method="post">
<table border="0" width="383" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
align="center">
<tr>
<td width="63" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:
12px; color: #333366;" align="right">Name:</td>
<td><input type="text" class="name_text" name="name" size="20"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="63" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:
12px; color: #333366;" align="right">Email:</td>
<td><input type="text" class="name_text" name="email" size="20">
<img src="img/required.gif" alt="Required" width="9" height="8"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:
12px; color: #333366;">Send a copy of this message to me too: <input
type="checkbox" name="cc_me" checked="" value="ON">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="63" style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size:
12px; color: #333366;"><p align="right" style="text-align: right">Phone:</p></td>
<td><input type="text" class="name_text" name="phoneNumber"
size="20"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<br>
<p style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; color:
#333366;">
To best route your email, please select the most appropriate
category:
</p>
<select class="greySelect" name="subject">
<option class="optionRed" value="Request Information"
selected>Request information</option>
<option class="optionRed" value="Owner Contact Request">Send
Message Directly To Owner</option>
<option class="optionRed" value="Requesting
Something">Other</option>
</select><br>
<br>
<p style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; color:
#333366;">Input message here.</p>
<textarea class="input_text" rows="20" cols="50"
style="font-family: arial, san-serif; font-size: 12px; color: navy;
scrollbar-base-color:pink;scrollbar-arrow-color: #ee0000;" name="message"
size="15"></textarea>
<p align="center"><input type="submit" value=" Send Request "
name="Submit" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, san-serif; font-size: 13px;
color: #ffffff; background: #006633;"></p>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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Cheers,
Scottie
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