mike cullerton14-01-2002 21:49 > on 1/14/02 12:06 PM, Michael Sciascia at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The last and *most important* thing left to do is to start sendmail, but I >> always get errors like: >> >> >> A) "Failed to start sendmail : 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 81: >> fileclass: cannot open /etc/mail/local-host-names: Group writable directory" >> >> B) "Failed to start sendmail : /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: WARNING: dangerous >> write permissions 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 81: fileclass: >> cannot open /etc/mail/local-host-names: Group writable directory"
Hi everybody, Yesterday I created a new partition on my HD just to work with php, mysql and apache. I installed again everything and also Webmin to manage more easily the various servers settings. I also changed, in the Apache httpd.conf file, the "ServerAdmin" (to my e-mail address) and "ServerName" (to Localhost or 127.0.0.1) values. I activated sendmail following your tips and the one found in the web and this time it started regularly without giving me the messages written above. So I believe that before I might have had made something wrong trying to change the configurations settings :-) Unfortunately I still got an annoying problem. When I use a php script to send e-mails via a form on a web page I get the right message "e-mail has been sent", as it always did, but I still can't get this e-mail anywhere :-( I also created an UNIX mail account in the "Mail" application according to some other tips I found to better work with sendmail, but I didn't get anything there too. Looking in the sendmail configuration with Webmin I see that the message sent by the php script is queued and that it isn't possible to send it because the host "www@localhost" isn't correct. In some web sites I found that I should change, in the hostconfig file, the value "Hostname = AUTOMATIC" to "Hostname = my domain" (which should be my IP or DNS) What isn't really clear to me is which domain I have to write here. I have an ISDN connection, so I don't have a static IP address and I don't know about the DNS. How do you usually check if a php script has really sent the e-mail to the address in the script? In the book I am using to approach to php this isn't explained, so I believe it should be something really easy to do. The book is for really and *absolute* beginners and everything is explained in a clear and exhaustive way. It also has a CD-ROM with mysql, php & apache and it clearly explains how to install them, but there isn't written anything about setting something special to let the e-mail scripts work (well actually something just for Windows and not for Linux or other *nix based systems like Mac OS X) Which values do you think I should write in the hostconfig file? My usual provider domain (i.e. www.tiscali.it)? Sorry to bother you again with so many question I would really appreciate any help you would give me, as I don't seem so good at looking for information on the web :-( Thanks again a lot for the previous and useful replies. Have a great time. Ciao, Michael -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
