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Bug #22378 "sendmail_from" not set in php.ini or custom "From:" header missing
Submitted: 2003-02-22 15:18 UTC Modified: 2003-03-09 19:01 UTC
Votes:71
Avg. Score:3.7 ± 1.2
Reproduced:53 of 64 (82.8%)
Same Version:19 (35.8%)
Same OS:25 (47.2%)
From: kris at aethiamud dot org Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Mail related
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-02-22 15:18 UTC] kris at aethiamud dot org
Although I have found a few existing threads with this problem, none seem to address the core issue.  Basically, the "[mail function]" section of my php.ini file is NOT being read at all!  When a forum script I was using gave me an error when it tried to send an email to a newly registered user, I tried every solution I could think of, then every solution I could find at php.net and using google.  I then tried my phpinfo.php page (http://www.aethiamud.org/phpinfo.php), which basically just contains the line:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>


And this is what it listed for the mail function entries:

sendmail_from     no value   no value
sendmail_path     no value   no value 
SMTP              localhost  localhost 

I then checked my php.ini file (which is in my windows directory, properly named), and here is what it says:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.aethiamud.org

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from = info@aethiamud.org

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =


The only solution I could find related to the php.ini file somehow not being read at all.  That was my first thought, so I tested that theory by changing the 'register_globals' setting from 'off' to 'on', then I restarted the webserver and reloaded the phpinfo.php page.  Lo and behold, register_globals changed from 'off' to 'on'.  Therefore, the php.ini file IS in the right place, and it IS being read.  However, the [mail function] section does not appear to be.  My email server is configured and functioning properly, and works with the cgi-bin version of sendmail just fine, so that can't be it either.

I'm fresh out of ideas here!  Is this a bug, or just something that I'm not seeing?  Any help you could provide would be very much appreciated  :)

--Kris

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 [2003-02-22 16:06 UTC] msopacua@php.net
Two things:
1) does ini_set('SMTP', 'smtp.aethiamud.org'); work?

2) does the cli binary also not display these values? (run: path\to\cli\php -i)
 [2003-02-22 17:34 UTC] kris at aethiamud dot org
re:

1) Could you tell me how to do that ini_set thing?  I tried a few variations with the php/cli/php.exe command line, but couldn't figure out what you meant.

2) I did do the php/cli/php -i and it also displayed the same things; i.e. 'sendmail_from => no value => no value' and 'SMTP => localhost => localhost'
 [2003-02-22 17:39 UTC] kris at aethiamud dot org
Ok I just got what you meant after I hit submit hehe.  I tried adding that line to the phpinfo.php file, and now it lists the local value as smtp.aethiamud.org and the master value still as localhost.
 [2003-02-22 20:09 UTC] msopacua@php.net
Ok, then it looks like a parse problem, or you have a syntax error in your php.ini file or the settings are not passed through to the php core.

Try changing a setting _below_ the [mail function] section, like for instance: mysql.default_port to 4306.

Does that value change? Then we can strike the 'passed through' error.
 [2003-02-22 23:29 UTC] sniper@php.net
Just a note: I tested this with latest STABLE snapshot on my win2k machine and it works just fine..

 [2003-03-09 19:01 UTC] sniper@php.net
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change the status of the bug back to "Open". Thank you.


 [2008-01-18 07:56 UTC] chaurasia151078 at hotmail dot com
hi
 
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