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 had the symilar error msmtp: /etc/msmtprc: must be owned by you with openSuse and changing the owner of /etc/msmtprc was not an option since cron and other services use it for other purposes and it resulted with another error msmtp: /etc/msmtprc: must have no more than user read/write permissions

My solution was to:

1) as root create a copy of msmtprc

cp /etc/msmtprc /etc/msmtprc_apache
chown wwwrun:www /etc/msmtprc_apache
chmod 0600 /etc/msmtprc_apache

2) change apache php.ini settings (search for sendmail_path) and force the configuration file (-C option)

sendmail_path = "/usr/bin/msmtp -C /etc/msmtprc_apache -t"

3) comment out in apache php.ini settings

; SMTP = localhost
; smtp_port = 25

For simple testing, as root switch to wwwrun user and test with php

sudo -u wwwrun -s
php -r "mail('test@test.com', 'PHP test', 'Test from PHP as wwwrun user');"