linux msmtp configuration sends from shell but fails from PHP/apache

Question

linux (fedora 20) msmtp configuration sends from shell but fails from PHP/apache, I am stumped... my objective is just to send email, through my gmail smtp from my localhost

Answer 1

I'm seeing this question asked, unanswered, in a number of forums - and even ran into my own question in a site that "scrapes" content from stack overflow - and posting an answer to this question for anyone confused by this issue. While this is not an exact answer to the question, it has something to do with the gnome key-ring support that was added to msmtp, as it is run without a shell and with tls. Unable and unwilling to try and convince the code to act in a way in which it was not designed to, my solution has been, with some resistance, to configure exim for smtp relay instead.