[wplug] PHP, MySQL, sendmail?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in June Scott Bourns assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Okay, I need to do one thing with sendmail on my web server, but I can't
| figure it out.
| 
| I want to use the PHP mail() function to send e-mail when entries are made
| to certain databases from php-imbedded html pages. Nothing that crazy, but
| I'm new to linux system admin., and can't find a resource that answers two
| questions:

i think i've done this in the past. i believe i just tried sending mail
from a simple php script and looked at the error. what to do next was based
on the error (if i got one). 

i just tried the following on our webserver:

<mymail.php>

<?php


srand((double)microtime()*1000000);

$hash  = md5(rand(0,9999999).time());

print "some random number ".$hash;

mail("jmh17 at pitt.edu", "subject" , " some random number $hash",
  "From: jmh17 at pitt.edu\r\n"."Reply-To: jmh17 at pitt.edu\r\n");
?>

</mymail.php>

and it worked fine. i don't recall if we changed anything on sendmail from
the default redhat 9 setup.

| 1. Do I need to configure client, server, or both for sendmail.
| 
| 2. Where can I get a sample config to just send from local sources (php
| calls) to an external mail server?
| 
| FYI I've gotten as far as how to alter configs, (via m4 module - sendmail.mc
| etc.) but don't know what exactly I'm supposed to be altering.

try a simple script and look at any errors you get. keep in mind that they
might be emailed to root if they are sendmail failures. 

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