PHP and Email

[dbo]

I'm sure this has been something that has come up before, but I haven't run across it yet so I'll throw out the question.

By disabling sendmail php applications on the webserver that are responsble for sending email aren't going to work. My guess is that some level of configuration for php is going to be needed.

Can someone who has dealt with this please give some explanation? Thanks a ton.

[phoenix]

I don't really understand your question, sendmail isn't used in, or by, Zimbra. Are you having some problem, if so what is it?

[dbo]

Yeah that's my point exactly. Zimbra requires it to be turned off however php's send_mail stuff requires it on. If I have to turn sendmail off for Zimbra how do I get my email forms on my webserver to work?

[andreychek]

Originally Posted by dbo

By disabling sendmail php applications on the webserver that are responsble for sending email aren't going to work. My guess is that some level of configuration for php is going to be needed.

Can someone who has dealt with this please give some explanation? Thanks a ton.

Howdy,

So, there's a /usr/bin/sendmail, which exists on RHEL and CentOS whether it's running Sendmail or Postfix.

As you said, with Zimbra running, you wouldn't typically run Postfix or Sendmail by itself.

What I did is simply symlink /usr/bin/sendmail to the Postfix version that comes with Zimbra:

ln -s /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.5/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

The above is what I did, which is working great. Of course, as Zimbra comes out with new releases, it'll no longer be Postfix "2.2.5", you'll have to make sure the symlink is pointing to the correct spot.

Good luck!
-Eric

[dbo]

Excellent, thank you!

[Eternal-student]

Thank you for this, it was really really useful! One change I made was point the symbolic link to the symbolic link so that I guess it will remain active even with an update of Zimbra

ln -s /opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

[Klug]

You can also let sendmail alone (not stop|remove it from the server) if you get it to run on another port than 25.