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Asked: 2026-05-27T15:29:43+00:00

I have configured my server to send mail by setting sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail in

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I have configured my server to send mail by setting "sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail" in “/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini” and sendmail is installed on the server.

When I run this script, or any variation of it, from php5 via the cli the mail sends just fine, but when I have a browser run it, i.e. Chrome or Firefox, it fails everytime.

<?php
 $to = "notreal@email.com";
 $subject = "Hi!";
 $body = "Hi,\n\nHow are you?";
 if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
   echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
  } else {
   echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
  }
?>

I am using the “php5-cli” package for a command line interpreter.

Other PHP based web-apps that rely on the PHP “mail()” function don’t send mail either.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Apache and the CLI seem to use different configurations in your setup.

    Compare the configuration in /etc/php5/cli/php.ini with your Apache’s php.ini. Probably something is not working with the sendmail configuration for Apache’s PHP and the CLI configuration is right.

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