Ubuntu: How to have my PHP Send mail?
Ubuntu: How to have my PHP Send mail?
Question: I installed Ubuntu 11.04, LAMP using tasksel.
I find that PHP mail() does not work.
I suppose I need to enable it or something? How do I do that?
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== This solution helped 1 person ==
https://askubuntu.com/a/47618/527764, con-f-use.
I have one thing to add about the “dummy gmail account”:
This is highly recommended because you have to configure your gmail account to
allow less secure applications: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/security/
lesssecureapps Otherwise you will get a “please log in using your web browser
and then try again” error in your /var/log/mail.log file.
also I found that I get a timeout error unless I send the gmail smtp sever my
root certificate. To do this:
sudo nano /etc/postfix/main.cf
add the following to the bottom of the file
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem
Then copy the thawte root cert to the cacert.pem file:
cat /etc/ssl/certs/thawte_Primary_Root_CA.pem | sudo tee -a /etc/postfix/
cacert.pem
Here is the link I used : https://easyengine.io/tutorials/linux/ubuntu-postfix-
gmail-smtp/
Hopefully this saves someone a few hair follicles…
== This solution helped 29 people ==
PHP requires an SMTP client to send mail. You could install a full-featured
mail transfer agent (MTA) like https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/
Postfix_%28software%29 to serve this function, but it’s overkill if you only
need to send mail through PHP. Instead, install msmtp. It’s lightweight and
much simpler to configure.
Install msmtp
sudo apt-get install msmtp-mta ca-certificates
Configure it
Create a new configuration file:
sudo vi /etc/msmtprc
…with the following configuration information:
# Set defaults.
defaults
# Enable or disable TLS/SSL encryption.
tls on
tls_starttls on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
# Set up a default account’s settings.
account default
host ＜smtp.example.net＞
port 587
auth on
user ＜username@example.net＞
password ＜password＞
from ＜address-to-receive-bounces@example.net＞
syslog LOG_MAIL
You need to replace the configuration data represented by everything within “＜”
and “＞” (inclusive, remove these). For host/username/password, use your normal
credentials for sending mail through your mail provider.
Tell PHP to use it
sudo vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
Add this single line:
sendmail_path = /usr/bin/msmtp -t
== This solution helped 2 people ==
This is an old question and there are worthy answers above, but I needed exim
for my environment. Also, confirm you have sendmail installed in the first
place ($ which sendmail — should return something like /usr/sbin/sendmail). I
found a good guide at https://library.linode.com/email/exim/send-only-mta-
ubuntu-12.04-precise-pangolin, but the gist is:
apt-get install exim4-daemon-light mailutils
followed by:
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
which will get you to an interactive editor.
== This solution helped 4 people ==
Should be a simple fix. You just need to install Postfix which does the actual
emailing.
sudo apt-get install postfix
You want to run that from a terminal (and not the software centre) because it
needs to ask you a few setup questions. You should be find to just accept all
the defaults (local-only, etc).
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