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

A good place to start is to check the error log.

For apache and Ubuntu (for example), the error log is located under /var/log/apache2/error.log.

This can give you a clue about what exactly is failing.

Answer 2

Try setting the

ini_set('sendmail_from', $from);

If you could show us the code it would be easier to see what is going wrong.

Answer 3

I had similar problem , mail function always returns false even if the email is received successfully.

I found in php configuration file php.ini, I had set up

; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = me@example.com

; For Unix only.
sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f "care@mydomain.com"

I have changed it to below

; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = me@example.com

; For Unix only.
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f care@mydomain.com

As per this sendmail_from is for win32 , so in *unix OS we need to set the value as shown in sendmail_path variable.

Regards Minesh

Answer 4

It's possible that the address you are trying to send it to, the server that handles it is rejecting the mail.

There are too many variables involved to say for sure.

Answer 5

If the class is only a wrapper around the function mail, I would try printing to a file the parameters used when calling the mail function

Answer 6

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:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
echo 'I am : ' . `whoami`;
$result = mail('myaddress@mydomain.com','Testing 1 2 3','This is a test.');
echo '<hr>Result was: ' . ( $result === FALSE ? 'FALSE' : 'TRUE') . $result;
echo '<hr>';
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