Sendmail/Qmail not sending emails!

[LancerForums]

I'm running QMail on Apache and cannot send emails to my members through VBulletin. There are no errors given, but I tried sending myself an email and I've never received it... I tried two accounts and no luck :(

Here's my phpinfo:

http://www.lancerforums.com/phpinfo.php

Thanks,

Mark

[eva2000]

that's becauase your php.ini sendmail_path is empty

[LancerForums]

hehe, I just did that to see what would happen :) It used to be /usr/sbin/sendmail, but I noticed that there are few places where sendmail is:

/usr/sbin/sendmail
/usr/lib/sendmail
/etc/sysconfig/sendmail
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail

and a few more... which do I use :confused:

Thanks,

Mark

[eva2000]

try using

/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i


as the path

restart apache after

[LancerForums]

Sweet, it works! Thanks Eva

[eva2000]

Originally posted by LancerForums
Sweet, it works! Thanks Eva no probs :)

[kypdurron]

I'm still having a problem that all e-mail generates from me, not
the webadministrator as set on my Control Panel.
I KNOW this is because I'm using qmail. Anyone have any ideas?

[kippesp]

kypdurron, what do you mean "generates from me"? I may be having the same situation. All of our emails generated by the mail() function will have the "Return-Path:" header with one of the user accounts (me).

But the reply-to: line is fine for us.

We're very pleased with qmail so far.

LancerForums, sounds like you didn't link to qmail's sendmail wrapper:
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib

With the wrappers, php.ini doesn't need to be modified. (Unless the wrapper has a bug like someone on php.net mentioned and I've yet to confirm.)

[kypdurron]

That's the problem I'm having. All notices to users seem to come from my userid, not the forum admin. I'm thinking of two possible
solutions, but first asked an admin that may have solved this issue. I'll keep you posted. Hard Coding something on php.ini is not a solution, especially if you have virtual domains setup.

[kippesp]

Sorry for getting this thread off its original topic.

kypdurron, this may not work on your system. I don't know why it works for me, while some people on php.net say that it doesn't work for them.

I've had success with 1) keeping the qmail sendmail wrapper, 2) keeping php.ini set to use sendmail a.k.a. qmail's wrapper, 3) adding the "-f$webmasteremail" as the 5th parameter to the mail() function.

For example,
mail("me@yahoo.com", "subject text", "message", "From: anyone@host.com", "-f$webmasteremail");

For vB, I think something like the above is good. But I'll use something different is user-to-user emails. I don't want bad mail comming back to my host.

[gospina]

try that, it didn't work..
thanks anyway.
I tried also using apache to set an environment setting (MAILUSER) and that also didn't work.

[gospina]

Ok...the problem is with qmail-inject, not the sendmail wrapper.

What you need to do is:



putenv ("QMAILUSER=ForumsAdmin");
putenv ("QMAILNAME=Forum Administrator");
putenv ("QMAILHOST=forum.com"); <- optional
mail ("gospina@test.com","test","another mesage");


The problem comes from all the places that "webmasteremail" is used you need to do a replace.
Also, on member.php, the following call exists:

mail($destuserinfo[email],$subject,$sendmessage,"From: \"$bbuserinfo[username]
\" <$bbuserinfo[email]>");

what does this line do? it allows to send email to someone directly and put their email address in the "from" field.

The problem is, if you want this to happen, you need to parse the $bbuserinfo[email] and separate the user and the host...
or...change the line so that it originates from the Administrator..

[kippesp]

Thanks. I'll give that a try. This looks like a candidate for global.php!

EDIT: It works like a champ. I'll probably add the environment variables in the global.php files to set the default. For those areas I want to change it (private emails), I'll change the default by using the 5th parameter in the mail command. Thanks very much.

[gospina]

Thank you. I didn't even think of adding it there (dumbass).

It also works for me!

[TonyPBN]

hot diggity!! its working for me too ;)

ahah, my webmaster is gonna be pissed now that HES the one getting all the bounced mails :)

[DarkReaper]

I don't follow...what do you have to do?

[gospina]

put the following in your global.php file:


putenv ("QMAILUSER=ForumsAdmin");
putenv ("QMAILNAME=Forum Administrator");
putenv ("QMAILHOST=forum.com"); <- optional

[DarkReaper]

The one in /admin?

Also, do I need to edit those lines, or put them in as-is?

Thanks :)

[gospina]

no..not the one in admin.
You should edit the values to match your Administrator and site

[DarkReaper]

So something like this?

putenv ("QMAILUSER=rodzilla");
putenv ("QMAILNAME=Serious Community Forum Administrator");
putenv ("QMAILHOST=seriouscommunity.com");

[gospina]

that's it :)

[DarkReaper]

It didn't work...

[DarkReaper]

Could someone help me with this? I tried the above and it didn't work. My host is still recieving a ton of bounced emails from my forums.