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Bug #25862 mail() always return FALSE
Submitted: 2003-10-14 08:26 UTC Modified: 2003-10-14 17:53 UTC
Votes:10
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 1.0
Reproduced:9 of 9 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (11.1%)
Same OS:2 (22.2%)
From: thouraud at bondy dot ird dot fr Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: Mail related
PHP Version: 4.3.3 OS: solaris 9
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-10-14 08:26 UTC] thouraud at bondy dot ird dot fr 
Description:
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The mail() function always return FALSE.
Even if the mail is sent !

Test with the sun's sendmail and postfix 2.0.16.
The mail can go out with no problem.

The result get the same safe_mode or not.

apache 1.3.28 with php as a module

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
  $ret = mail ("user@domain.tld", 
               "sujet " . date("l dS of F Y h:i:s A"),
               "corps\nl2\nl3\n",
               "From: user@domain.tld\r\n"
               ."Reply-To: user@domain.tld\r\n"
              ) ;

  print "ret = $ret<hr>" ;
  if ($ret) {
    print 'OK<br>' ;
  } else {
    print 'KO<br>' ;
  }

?>


Expected result:
----------------
if we can send mail to user@domain.tld
then OK and user@domain.tld receive the mail.


if any error to sent mail 
then KO and no mail !

Actual result:
--------------
always KO

but the mail are been received !

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 [2003-10-14 10:34 UTC] sniper@php.net 
What was the configure line you used to configure PHP?
 [2003-10-14 10:44 UTC] thouraud at bondy dot ird dot fr 
the configure line is :

./configure  --with-apxs=/opt/apache/bin/apxs --prefix=/opt/apache --with-config-file-path=/opt/apache/conf --with-mysql --disable-debug --enable-trans-sid --with-oci8=/opt/oracle/product/9201 --enable-dbase --enable-safe-mode --disable-magic-quotes --enable-sigchild --enable-ldap --with-zlib=/opt/sfwplus --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --enable-zend-multibyte --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-exif --with-jpeg-dir=/opt/sfwplus --with-png-dir=/opt/sfwplus --with-tiff-dir=/opt/sfwplus --with-gd --with-iconv --with-pgsql=/opt/postgres
 [2003-10-14 11:13 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Okay, try removing the --enable-sigchild configure option
and reconfigure/compile PHP. (don't forget to delete config.cache before reconfiguring!)
 [2003-10-14 13:05 UTC] thouraud at bondy dot ird dot fr 
Without the --enable-sigchild configure option, it seems that mail() alwayes return TRUE.

Even if the mail server returns an "unknown error" with a false email, or an "No recipients specified" with a blank first field of mail().

Is that normal ? When mail() returns FALSE ?
 [2003-10-14 17:53 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
When PHP is compiled with --enable-sigchild the return codes of executed programs are lost. Once of those programs is sendmail, since PHP cannot fetch the return code it assumes the program had failed. Hence the always FALSE return value of mail(). Normally mail() returns false only when communication between PHP & sendmail fails.
 [2004-05-06 04:07 UTC] roguedragon at merging dot org 
PHP version 4.3.6 / Apache 1.3.29 on FreeBSD
Having the same problem listed here, but I recompiled php & apache without the --enable-sigchild flag, restarted everything, and mail() is still returning false even though the mail is going through correctly. Any suggestions?
 [2011-07-03 08:03 UTC] zhirkow at gmail dot com 
still having this problem with php 5.2 on centos 5.6 x86
mail() return false with no reason or explaination of what happens. also nothing in logs...
 
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