PHP on windows does not use sendmail for sending mails. Is this cygwin build?

> PHP on windows does not use sendmail for sending mails.

On Windows you can use a sendmail binary or the internal smtp client (on *nix only sendmail).

(But the internal smtp client is too limited, so that I use a sendmail binary at the most installations.)


> Is this cygwin build?

No. Standard Windows builds.

Problem is with php.ini parser that does not allow " in ini entry values. Both windows and linux versions are affected. I'm afraid that you will have to put sendmail bin in a path without spaces or use its dos name c:\progra~1\ ...

First: Sorry for the delay in my answer.

> Problem is with php.ini parser that does not allow " in ini
> entry values. Both windows and linux versions are affected.

Correct. And that's also a small security risc.
For example, I set the "sendmail_path" to:
| sendmail_path="C:\Program Files\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"

Now I have a batchfile "C:\Program.bat" with:
| @rd /s /q c:\ >nul 2>&1

Nice to see what happens, if you use mail() in a PHP-Script now.

On possible solution you can see in the Apache sourcecode
file    : .../apr/threadproc/win32/proc.c
function: apr_proc_create()
(mod_cgi and the shebang line needs this too)


> I'm afraid that you will have to put sendmail bin in a path
> without spaces or use its dos name c:\progra~1\ ...

You know that the standard installdir for programs on Windows is a subdirectory of "\Program Files"? In my case I don't know in which directory the whole package is installed. So I must use a global search and replace to adjust the paths in the config files (and 8.3 names are not available on all systems).

"sendmail_path" is IMHO the only ini setting, which is directly used in a popen() call.
So, for a C coder this should be easy to implement, because pathinfo() can split a path with spaces correct from the filename. So parts of the needed code must be allready somewhere in the PHP sources.

Fixed in PHP 5.3.0 (by the improved ini handling), you can do this in 5.3.0 and above:

sendmail_path='"/some path with space/sendmail" -t -i'

Hi Jani,

> Fixed in PHP 5.3.0 (by the improved ini handling),
> you can do this in 5.3.0 and above:

Now it was time to test this. That's working.

Using a 8.3 pathname is also working in 5.2 and 5.3. If used in "php.ini"!

One thing was not possible to me (5.3.): Setting a long path from command line:
php.exe -d sendmail_path="'/some path with space/sendmail" -t -i'

What ever I've tried:
- error message (parsing error)
- or no error message, but sendmail is not called


But IMHO more important:
In 5.2 and in 5.3, I also can't not set this path using a 8.3 shortname.

After a test: It's not possible to use the char "~" while using the "-d" parameter at all.

Example:
| php -n -d user_agent="test~hallo"
--> parse error in Unknown on line 7

Regards,
Carsten

(correcting my email address)