sendmail ... does it work or not?

[buzinator]

Hi,

I've tried running a number of php CMS'es (phpBB3, php-Nuke 7.7 & 8.0 and Joomla 1.5 & 1.0), none of them seem to send out emails for things like new user activation or topic reply notifications etc. I've read a bunch of posts here and tried several things to no avail, both sendmail and smtp methods. So I'm going to try and start over, from the top...

Q1 ... does anyone have a phpBB/Nuke/Joomla site that is fully functional in regards to mailing? If I can see testimony that it is physically possible to make things work correctly at bluehost, that would be a big relief/encouragment :)



... btw, yes, I have submitted a ticket to support, it seems to have been ignored though, so I'm fairly unimpressed with that. "Zak" was the initial responder that asked for my account pw, which i actually gave, but never heard anything back.

[vegasgwm]

Does the email you're sending FROM exsist in your email accounts?

[buzinator]

Yep I did try it that way, didn't work at the time.


Update however ...

Since I was really suspecting a php.ini issue, I read up on how enabling php 5's FastCGI causes all dir's to ignore their individual php.ini files and refer only to /home/<username>/public_html/php.ini.

So, I went into my bluehost CPanel and under the php config section told it to copy in the php.ini.default, renamed it to php.ini (after deleting the previously existing one) and went around killing the sub folder php.ini's for good measure.

So far so good, received an activation email from a new user registration i did on a nuke site on a subdomain. Which actually answered a side-question I had in my mind - under fastcgi mode, /home/<username>/public_html/php.ini is used for subdomains and add-on domains (not just the main site in the web root folder) since it's a local path, serverside.

Heck, I was having a Joomla problem where the installer would say that session save path was not writable. Looking through the shiny new php.ini in my public_html folder i found session.save_path was commented out, so i removed the ; and left the path as /tmp (verified /tmp was chmod 777 ...figure that's ok since it's outside of public_html) and now it's all happy too.

i know the Joomla notes above are OT, but I included it in case someone searches for that prob, this info may be of help to them.

fingers crossed that i'm good now, i'll do a few more tests to be sure, but it's looking up.