Home/ Questions/Q 7764601
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-01T14:57:12+00:00

I’m trying to send mail via the PHP mail() function which as far as

  • 0

I’m trying to send mail via the PHP mail() function which as far as I have understood uses sendmail to deliver the goods. Now my problem is that mail() returns true but there is not even a trace of the mail in my mailbox (yea i checked spam too).

So i tried to send some mail manually from the terminal but the problem persists. sendmail does not give me an error, except from a unable to determine domain error which i fixed by adding the domain for my dev-machine to /etc/hosts and related it to 127.0.0.1.

andreas@Andreas-PC-Ubuntu:~$ sendmail xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.com
Test
.
andreas@Andreas-PC-Ubuntu:~$

As well as giving no error, sendmail logs that the mail was sent successfully in /var/log/mail.log:

Apr  7 01:16:21 Andreas-PC-Ubuntu sendmail[11759]: q36NGIfD011759: from=andreas, size=5, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201204062316.q36NGIfD011759@home.hagenz.com>, relay=andreas@localhost
Apr  7 01:16:21 Andreas-PC-Ubuntu sm-mta[11760]: q36NGL1J011760: from=<andreas@home.hagenz.com>, size=299, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201204062316.q36NGIfD011759@home.hagenz.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=ip6-localhost [127.0.0.1]
Apr  7 01:16:21 Andreas-PC-Ubuntu sendmail[11759]: q36NGIfD011759: to=xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.com, ctladdr=andreas (1000/1000), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30005, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (q36NGL1J011760 Message accepted for delivery)

So yea, any suggestions?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Are you sure the recipient SMTP server isn’t dropping (or at least greylisting) your mail? It’s very common for mail servers to treat messages not coming from a recognized MX server as being spammy.

    Is sendmail configured to use an SMTP relay/smarthost? If not, what happens if you configure it to use your ISP’s, employer’s, or other hosting provider’s server?

    • 0