Mail returns false

Question

I\'m currently using a custom made library at my job. Until just rencently the library was working perfectly. It apparently return false since about today.

The libra

Answer 1

I just had the same problem. After a php upgrade, the mail function always returns false.

I used this little snippet to check it out:

Result was: ' . ( $result === FALSE ? 'FALSE' : 'TRUE') . $result;
echo '
';
echo phpinfo();

The solution was setting a value in my php.ini for 'sendmail_from' and 'sendmail_path'. The correct values in my case were:

sendmail_from = "no-reply@mydomain.net"
sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"

(I'm using CentOS 5.3 w/ Zend Server CE.)

You could use ini_set() to set the value of 'sendmail_from', but the 'sendmail_path' var must be setup in your php.ini or http.conf.

• http://us3.php.net/manual/en/configuration.changes.modes.php
• http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ini.list.php