By David Orr on

I have suddenly begun to get the following error message in the logs when adding a new user, using the contact form and using the email features of advuser:

mail() [function.mail]: Could not execute mail delivery program '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i' in /DRUPALROOT/modules/user.module on line 409.

The strange thing is that every now and then in testing it has worked and then immediately failed again. I have also restarted sendmail, but this has not helped. Using mail on the shell command line works fine.

I really hope someone has been here before and can advise!

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David Orr’s picture

David Orr commented

The error lay in a php.ini amendment. Corrected the error and restarted apache - all is well.

Apologies - posted in the wrong place ... new member ...

reggie75’s picture

reggie75 commented

hi david,

i am getting the very same error intermittently at times while sending newsletters.

could you share the amendment you made to rectify this?

thanks in advance,
reggie

xerbutter’s picture

xerbutter commented

Hi,

I seem to be having the same problem. 90% of the time emails are sent fine, but then I get that error message the other 10% of the time:

warning: mail() [function.mail]: Could not execute mail delivery program '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i'

Note that this is just for sending one email at a time - I'm not sending a large batch of newsletters or anything like that.

Could you share your experience on how to fix this problem?

Thanks.