By alchemist on

I was running a drupal 6.12 site on a CentOS system just fine. This is a pretty vanilla stock system with no additional modules other can core. I had to move the site to a fresh, new server running Fedora Core 10. Everything is working, except the contact page. When I try to send e-mail using that page, I get an error in the log stating "Error sending e-mail (from xxxx to xxxxx)."

I'm pretty sure it is hitting line 134 of mail.inc. drupal_mail_send() is returning an error because (I think) the php function mail() is returning an error.

There is nothing else reported in drupal's logs or php's log.

I'm sure this is because of something I had installed or configured in the original CentOS system (which I have neglected to do in the new FC10 system), but for the life of me, I don't remember what. I thought the php mail function worked pretty much out of the box.

I did crank up the max memory to 128M and turn on error logging in php.ini. I can send & receive mail just fine on the new server. I'm running postfix, if it matters.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Kory

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alxsvdr’s picture

alxsvdr commented

Did you check mynetworks configuration in /etc/postfix/main.cf? (I use Ubuntu, location may differ) Sometimes it's also necessary to setup myhostname directive. A review of mail log may also be useful (/var/log/mail.log).

Regards,

Alex

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alchemist commented

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the reply. I solved the problem late last night (and forgot to update this thread -- my apologies). Its seems I needed to comment out the 'sendmail_path' setting in php.ini. I don't understand why, because it was correct, but I noticed it was also commented out on the original server (I did not configure that server). Once I commented it out and restarted httpd, I could then send mail with php.

Thanks,
Kory

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allella commented

Another potential reason for "Error sending e-mail" error messages on Fedora would be if SELinux is blocking the web server from sending emails.

If you're running Sendmail then check its logs (/var/mail/mailog) for signs of a problem and you might see something like
Snippet 1
NOQUEUE: SYSERR(apache) /etc/mail/sendmail.cf Permission denied

also, running the following command with root permissions
Snippet 2
/usr/sbin/semanage boolean -l|grep sendmail
may show "httpd_can_sendmail off"

If both of the above are true then instruct SELinux to allow httpd to relay through Sendmail by running the following with root permissions
Snippet 3
/usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail on

Note the -P option makes it permanent across reboots.

Via the man page - Note: Without the -P option, only the current boolean value is affected; the boot-time default settings are not changed. If the -P option is given, all pending values are written to the policy file on disk. So they will be persistant across reboots.

Running the code in Snippet 2 again should now show "httpd_can_sendmail on"

In my case it was not necessary to re-boot httpd or do anything else.